Hong Kong – With no Canadian medals to date in these Olympic Games, pressure is mounting on Canadian equestrian show jumpers, who begin competitions Friday evening in Hong Kong and are considered to be in medal contention. 40-year-old Eric Lamaze, of Schomberg, Ontario, is an Individual medal favourite with his great stallion, Hickstead. Sports Illustrated […]

A total of 87 Jumping horses were presented for veterinary inspection at the Olympic equestrian venue in Sha Tin, Hong Kong this morning and all passed with flying colours, with no visitors to the holding box. There were three changes to the Olympic Jumping start-list yesterday (Wednesday) when it was confirmed that Michael Whitaker’s Portofino, […]

Hong Kong, China – Leslie Reid of Langley, BC, was the first competitor for the Canadian Team on the opening day of Dressage competition on Wednesday, August 13, at the 2008 Olympic Games. Reid, 52, performed the Grand Prix test riding Orion, an 11-year-old Dutch Warmblood gelding owned by George and Patricia Hatch. She earned […]

Hong Kong – The Canadian Eventing Team finished its Olympic bid in ninth place on Tuesday night at the Sha Tin venue in Hong Kong, China. Sandra Donnelly of Calgary, AB, was the top-placed Canadian, finishing in 31st place individually. Germany won the Gold Medal with a final score of 166.10 penalty points, Australia took […]

Hong Kong – Germany took individual and team gold at the Olympic Eventing finale at Sha Tin stadium in Hong Kong this evening, but not without a terrific battle to the very last. The Australians challenged for the team honours with all of their might, but had to settle for silver while the British stood […]

Ottawa, Ontario— It was a bronze medal day for the Canadian Juniors and Young Riders competing at 2008 CN North American Junior Young Riders’ Championships (NAJYRC) was held at the Colorado Horse Park in Parker Colorado from July 29–August 3, 2008. Young Rider Stephanie Rhodes-Bush won individual bronze medal in the Two star Championship division […]

Ottawa, ON—The Canadian Eventing Committee is accepting nominations for the positions on the committee. The Canadian Eventing Committee (CEC) is a sub-committee of Equine Canada (EC). Equine Canada is the body that governs all equestrian sport in Canada and represents Canadian equestrian sport to the Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI), to the Canadian Olympic Committee and […]

Hong Kong – All 57 horses presented at the final veterinary inspection for Eventing were passed fit to compete by the Ground Jury this afternoon, although there were some anxious moments for both America’s Gina Miles and Australia’s Sonja Johnson. With eight of the 68 participating horse-and-rider combinations eliminated on yesterday’s cross-country track, and three […]

Hong Kong, China – Kyle Carter of Calgary, AB, is the top Canadian following cross-country, the second of three phases comprising the equestrian sport of eventing, at the 2008 Olympic Games.  Carter is in 32nd position individually while the Canadian Eventing Team is in ninth position overall. Carter, who had been sitting in 61st position […]

Olympic Cross Country day, 11 August 2008, shall certainly be remembered as a day of spectacular success, which was brought by years of in-depth preparation, planning and results, but also helped by luck. “We were lucky with the weather,” Foreign Veterinary Delegate Prof. Leo Jeffcott, who has spent three years monitoring the climatic conditions in […]