The FEI has announced that the Fidelity Blenheim Palace International Horse Trials (September 8-11, 2011) will be hosting the London 2012 team Eventing qualifier for Africa, Middle East, South East Asia and Oceania (FEI Olympic Groups F and G). Blenheim, which began in 1990, is firmly established in the Eventing calendar attracting international champions and […]

FEI President HRH Princess Haya today announced with regret the resignation of FEI Secretary General and CEO Alex McLin, praising him for bringing new professionalism to the organisation. “I am truly indebted to Alex for his hard work and dedication over the last three years. He brought the FEI into the modern era and made […]

The 2011 FEI Equine Prohibited Substance List comes into effect today, 4 April. The updated List has been publicly available since the FEI General Assembly in Taipei last November when it was unanimously approved. It is also accessible via the easily searchable FEI Equine Prohibited Substances Database, which is free to download for iPhones and […]

The FEI has created a lead judging post to ensure greater consistency and accuracy of judging at all levels of Dressage competition. Ghislain Fouarge (NED) was elected as the FEI’s first Dressage Judge General at last month’s 5* judges seminar in Warendorf (GER). Fouarge, a highly respected international Dressage judge, has officiated at the top […]

Equine Canada, Canada’s national governing body for equestrianism, has issued its response to the FEI’s opening consultations on statutory changes to restructure the international federation. Canada’s submission replies to the five questions posed by the FEI on potential changes to the FEI statutes.  However, the submission goes further, offering proposals to reform the FEI’s organizational practices, […]

The FEI Eventing Risk Management Action Plan, which was launched in January 2010, is on target, as shown by the steady decrease in the percentage of Cross-Country falls. National Safety Officers (NSOs) from 22 nations who attended the FEI’s annual NSO seminar in Greenwich, London (GBR) on 29-30 January were shown provisional statistics for 2010 […]

The new FEI Education System for Jumping Officials will be the key feature of an official FEI Refresher Course for Jumping Judges which will be held on January 29, 2011 in Zurich, the venue of the ninth leg of the Rolex FEI World Cup™. A record number of participants – 160 FEI Officials from 45 […]

An FEI Extraordinary General Assembly will be held on 6 May 2011 in Lausanne (SUI) to seek approval of new FEI Statutes. At this meeting, the National Federations will have the opportunity to vote on statutory changes that, if passed, will restructure the current FEI governance model. A comprehensive consultation process, in which input from […]