HSBC, platinum partner of the FEI, will wind up its association with the FEI at the end of the 2013 season after six years as the global sponsor of Eventing. The global banking giant, which put its name to the HSBC FEI Classics™ when it was first created in 2008, will remain as title sponsor […]

New South Wales professional Craig Barrett, leader after the Cross Country in Adelaide (AUS), produced a classy performance with Mr and Mrs Keith Osborne’s Sandhills Brillaire in the final Jumping phase to clinch the title at the second leg of the HSBC FEI Classics™ 2012/2013. This was Barrett’s first 4* event, for which he earned the […]

Beijing Team Silver medallist, Shane Rose had a good day at the office in Adelaide, taking the lead in the HSBC FEI Classics™ Dressage phase, as well as the CCI 2* competition. Rose claimed the early lead in the HSBC FEI Classics™ with 45.80 penalties riding the Leder family, Jamie McDonald and Lee Hokianga’s Australian-bred […]

Andrew Nicholson (NZL) crowned perhaps the best season of his long and distinguished career when he won Les Etoiles de Pau (FRA), the first leg of the 2012/2013 HSBC FEI Classics™, on Libby Sellars’ talented chestnut Nereo this weekend. The only rider to complete on his Dressage score, Pau was Nicholson’s fourth consecutive international victory […]

The organising team at Les Etoiles des Pau (FRA),  October 24-28, 2012, the first event in the HSBC FEI Classics™ 2012/2013 season, have described this year’s entry as “a dream” with members of the gold, silver and bronze medal-winning teams at the London 2012 Olympic Games heading to the popular CCI4* in the foothills of the […]

In an extraordinary finale to the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials (GBR), the evergreen New Zealander Andrew Nicholson seized his third victory in 17 years at this popular venue while William Fox-Pitt’s third place was good enough – by just one point – to win him a third HSBC FEI Classics™ title. Fox-Pitt (GBR), riding […]

Sinead Halpin (USA), who was first reserve for the US Olympic team, finally got her moment in the sun when she took a convincing lead after the Dressage phase at the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials (GBR), finale of the 2011-2012 HSBC FEI Classics™. Halpin, 30, who won the HSBC Training Bursary when third on […]

This weekend’s Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials (GBR) (August 30 – September 2) looks set to provide a thrilling climax to the HSBC FEI Classics™ 2012 series, with a bumper international entry and a surge in ticket sales following the huge success of the equestrian events at the London 2012 Olympic Games. Britain’s Eventing summer […]

Andrew Nicholson (NZL) has taken over as world number one in the HSBC Rankings after the London 2012 Olympic Eventing competition in Greenwich Park. Nicholson, captain of New Zealand’s bronze medal-winning team at London 2012, is now 46 points clear of William Fox-Pitt (GBR) who had led the HSBC Rankings since April. London 2012 is […]

Michael Jung (GER), riding Leopin FST, added yet another accolade to his glittering career when he won the CCI4* at Luhmühlen (GER), the penultimate leg of the HSBC FEI Classics™, much to the delight of a loudly cheering home crowd. Earlier in the day he had won the German national title with Weidezaunprofi’s River of […]