Canada’s Tribunal member rejects claims that the prohibited substances resulted from surgery ‘a few days before the race.’

The FEI has announced that two horses competing at the 2014 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games™  have tested positive for Controlled Medication substances. Controlled Medications are substances that are regularly used to treat horses but which are not allowed in competition in order to maintain a level playing field. Samples taken on August 28th from […]

After three horse carcasses, of six recently flagged for testing in the UK as the result of the European horsemeat scandal, tested positive for trace amounts of phenylbutazone (bute), British Food Standards Agency testing protocols have been changed. From now on, horsemeat can only be shipped out of abattoirs after it has been proven to be […]

The FEI Equine Prohibited Substance List for 2013, which has now been approved by the FEI Bureau, will come into force on January 1, 2013. Following a period of consultation with the National Federations, the FEI List Group held its most recent meeting during the London 2012 Paralympics and signed off changes to the List […]