Team France has won the $350,000 BMO Nations’ Cup today at the Spruce Meadows “Masters” Tournament. In front of a record crowd of 79,489, over 10,000 more than last year, Team France jumped in championship form to win one of the richest Nations’ Cup events in the World. Only four jumping faults separated France and […]
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A record Friday crowd of 59,765 was treated to top championship sport in the Mercedes-Benz Evening of the Horse, Friday at Spruce Meadows. In the $100,000 Encana Cup, Lauren Hough of the United States scored her first victory with her 9 year old mare Blue Angel in a 3 horse jump-off featuring Kamal Bahamdan (KSA) […]
Forty-one entries took on the ATCO Structures & Logistics Cup course designed by world respected Venezuelan course designer, Leopoldo Palacios. Of the 11 clears in the first round, 10 returned to jump-off the placings. Eric Lamaze (CAN), fresh off his success yesterday with Hickstead, rode the 9-year-old speed specialist, Coriana van Klapscheut, to the win. […]
It is clear that number one FEI Rolex World Ranking rider, Eric Lamaze (CAN), and his 15 year old stallion Hickstead like the International Ring at Spruce Meadows. They experienced great success during the Spruce Meadows Summer Tour and that success continued on the first day of the Spruce Meadows “Masters” Tournament. In the Finning […]
Khaled Al Eid (KSA) concluded the 2011 Spruce Meadows Champions “Welcome” Tournament with an impressive double clear performance riding Presley Boy to victory in the Friends of the Meadows World Cup Grand Prix. The victory in the final events of the Spruce Meadows “Masters” preview tournament was the first ever for the Kingdom of Saudi […]
The Spruce Meadows “Masters” Charters arrive each September with the best horses in the world. The largest of four charter aircraft is arriving tomorrow, September 1, at the Calgary International Airport. There are 70 horses scheduled to arrive on a Boeing 747-400 on Thursday, September 01, 2011 at 1310 hrs. Media are invited to cover […]
John Anderson, Jonathan Asselin, Eric Lamaze, and Ian Millar will represent the Canadian Show Jumping Team in the $350,000 BMO Nations’ Cup held Saturday, September 10, at the CSIO5* Spruce Meadows ‘Masters’ Tournament in Calgary, AB. Anderson, 44, of Calgary, AB, will ride Terrific, an 11-year-old Dutch Warmblood mare owned by Foxdale Farm Inc. Asselin, […]
Captain Canada, Ian Millar (CAN), captured the Akita Drilling Cup on the last dry day of the Spruce Meadows ‘North American’ tournament. Twenty five horse and rider combinations took to the international ring to compete for the $50, 000 dollar prize. The course designed by Werner Deeg (GER) proved to be a challenge, as only […]
The final event of the Spruce Meadows North American tournament, the Cenovus Classic, saw 18 horse and rider combinations tackle the historic course originally designed by Pamela Carruthers (GRB) in 1985. A crowd of 38, 915 watched as Shane Sweetnam (IRL) rode to victory aboard his 10 year old Swedish Warmblood stallion, Traffic Boy. “When […]
Olympic Champions Eric Lamaze and Hickstead made show jumping history yet again by winning the $200,000 ATCO Power Queen Elizabeth II Cup for a record fourth time. The crowning event in the five-week Spruce Meadows summer tournaments was held July 9 in Calgary, Alberta. Having previously won the event in 2007, 2008 and 2010, […]