Australian Boyd Exell laid down a marker for his rivals as the FEI World Cup™ Driving season got underway in Germany. The Double World Cup Champion and recent World Four-in-Hand Champion won the first competition of the season in Hannover, finishing ahead of Hungary’s József Dobrovitz and IJsbrand Chardon from the Netherlands. The 10th season […]

At its meeting held in Taipei November 1st, the FEI Bureau approved venues for the following 2011 and 2013 FEI Championships: – The 2011 European Young Riders & Juniors Dressage Championships (EU-CH-YR-J-D-) have been allocated to Broholm Castle (DEN) from July 21-24 – The 2011 North American Young Riders & Juniors Jumping, Dressage, Eventing, Reining […]

Dressage Canada regrets to inform the dressage community that it has been unsuccessful in its bid to retain the services of Team Technical Coach/Advisor Robert Dover beyond the one-year contract that expired October 15, 2010.  While efforts have been made over the past several months to extend this contract, the two sides have been unable […]

Canadian Lindsay Pearce, who has been a working student in Devon, England, with Lucy Wiegersma  since January of this year, placed 15th with Saniki in the World Championship CCI2* for Seven-Year-Old Horses in the Mondial du Lion event in France, October 21-24. Saniki, an Irish Sport Horse mare by the KWPN stallion Ekstein (Hickstead’s grandsire) […]

The 10th Global Dressage Forum had a very special highlight. A minutes-long standing ovation for the emotional World Champion Edward Gal and his team moved many participants into tears. Some of them had been present since the very first Forum in 2000, and were convinced that this was the most memorable moment of those 10 […]

Margie Gayford of Sharon, ON, emerged the Eastern Division winner of the 2010 Jump Canada National Talent Squad Series while Hayley Alfonso of Calgary, AB, topped the standings in the Western Division. In the Eastern Division Talent Squad competition held at the Caledon Summer Festival in Palgrave, ON, Gayford guided Winston, Wingberry Farm’s 11-year-old Belgian […]

Tickets are now available for the 2010 Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony and Gala, presented by BMO Financial Group, to be held on Sunday, November 7, 2010, at the Liberty Grand in Toronto, ON. The Hall of Fame Gala has quickly grown into an annual favourite and has been a sell-out in each of its […]

Germany’s Andreas Dibowski dominated the 25th World Eventing Championship for Young Horses, staged at the Haras Nationaux du Lion d’Angers, France from 21 to 24 October. The German Olympian and his much-admired stallion Mighty Magic (Mytens XX/Heraldik XX) which finished second in last year’s 6 year-old class, returned to take the coveted 7 year-old title […]

Germany’s Christian Ahlmann and the stallion Taloubet Z made it two-in-a-row when storming to victory in the second leg of the 2010/2011 Rolex FEI World Cup™ Jumping series at Helsinki, Finland this afternoon.  “I’m very lucky to have such a quick horse” said the 35 year old rider who, having already taken the main honours […]

German dressage ace Isabell Werth threw down the gauntlet with a clear victory in the first leg of the 2010/2011 Reem Acra FEI World Cup™ Dressage series in Odense, Denmark. Last to go, and chasing the target set by Denmark’s Princess Nathalie Zu Sayn Wittgenstein who pipped her for the honours in yesterday’s Grand Prix, […]