Yann Candele of Caledon, ON, closes out the 2010 season currently ranked as the top Canadian in the North American World Cup League standings. In Toronto at the Royal Horse Show, Candele collected 10 points for his seventh place finish in the $100,000 World Cup Grand Prix held November 10 riding Susan Grange’s Pitareusa, a […]
FEI President HRH Princess Haya has today named Chairman of Geographical Group VII Sheikh Khalid Bin Abdulla Al Khalifa (BRN) and Chair of the Driving Committee Richard Nicoll (USA) as members of the FEI Executive Board. Sheikh Khalid and Mr Nicoll will serve on the Executive Board alongside First Vice President John McEwen (GBR) and […]
Canada’s Eric Lamaze finished second in the €200,000 Rolex World Cup Grand Prix held Sunday, December 12, in Geneva, Switzerland, in his final competitive appearance of the 2010 season. Lamaze of Schomberg, ON, concluded four consecutive weeks of indoor competition in Europe by placing second in the €200,000 Rolex World Cup Grand Prix. The final […]
Kevin Staut and Silvana de Hus scorched to victory today in the sixth leg of the 2010/2011 Rolex FEI World Cup™ Jumping series at Geneva in Switzerland. The 30 year old Frenchman, who continues to hold the No. 1 spot in the Rolex World Rankings and who was already leading the Western European League series […]
Boyd Exell is back on track after winning the fifth qualifier of this season’s FEI World Cup™ Driving in Geneva. Exell was too strong for IJsbrand Chardon and Tomas Eriksson and claimed his only victory rewarded with World Cup points this season. This is Boyd Exell’s third victory at Geneva’s Palexpo after his win in […]
The Swiss Jumping team of Steve Guerdat, Christina Liebherr, Niklaus Schurtenberger and Pius Schwizer were tonight presented with the 2008 Olympic bronze medal at the International Geneva Horse Show. The medals were presented by Patrick Baumann, IOC member in Switzerland and member of the IOC Executive Board. Other officials involved in the ceremony were John […]
The Canadian Horse Defence Coalition (CHDC) has learned that Bouvry Exports horse slaughter plant in Fort MacLeod, Alberta closed operations on December 3rd to complete renovations related to sanitation. This news is not surpising. It is well documented that horse slaughter operations in Canada and the U.S. have a long history of pollution troubles and […]
On October 19th, Bromont’s Mayor, Pauline Quinlan, hand delivered a letter addressed to FEI Secretary General Alexander McLin, in Lausanne Switzerland. The letter expressed the city’s interest in hosting the 2018 WEG and requested that the FEI convey to the city the requirements and specifications related to such an endeavour. It would not be the […]
Voting is now underway for the 2011 Equine Canada Director-at-Large election. Members of Equine Canada are eligible to vote for the Director-at-Large position provided that individual is 18 years-of-age or older in the year of election. Voting may be completed in one of two ways. Members must visit the Equine Canada website at http://www.equinecanada.ca/ and […]
Isabell Werth, a double-winner so far this season, holds a slender lead as the 2010/2011 Reem Acra FEI World Cup™ Dressage Western European League series moves to the hugely popular Christmas Show at Olympia in London next week. However Werth’s decision to skip the British fixture and to aim instead for the following leg on […]
