9 days to go! A temporary equine quarantine facility at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Airport is ready to facilitate the entry of horses from around the world competing in the eight World Championships of the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games, September 25-October 10 at the Kentucky Horse Park. The World Games 2010 Foundation worked in […]
In the final countdown to the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games™, the FEI has published an updated version of the FEI Elective Testing List. Elective Testing allows Team Veterinarians to submit urine from FEI-registered competition horses to an FEI Reference Laboratory to test for up to four Prohibited Substances. The Elective Testing List, approved by […]
The 2010 Meydan FEI Nations Cup™ may be over, but there is one last piece of the jig-saw to be put in place ahead of the 2011 season. At Barcelona in Spain this coming weekend, the last remaining qualifying spot for next year’s top level series will be decided when the Meydan FEI Nations Cup™ […]
The Canadian Eventing High Performance Committee is pleased to announce the members of the Canadian Eventing Team who will compete in the World Equestrian Games in Lexington, Kentucky, USA, September 30–October 3, 2010. Selected according to the qualification thresholds and selection procedure, six rider/ horse combinations have been named to the Team. Named to the […]
With just 14 days until the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games, the first group of eight horses arrived at the Kentucky Horse Park on Friday afternoon. This first group of equine athletes represent Chile and Guatemale and will compete at the Games in the World Championship of Endurance presented by […]
In front of 76,947 show jumping fans, Canadian Olympic Champion Eric Lamaze placed third in the $1 million CN International held Sunday, September 12, at the CSIO5* Spruce Meadows “Masters” Tournament in Calgary, AB. Despite competing with a broken bone in his left foot, Lamaze of Schomberg, ON, jumped clear in the first round riding […]
The 35th Anniversary Spruce Meadows “Masters” came to a close today with the $1 million CN International Grand Prix. It was a week of firsts and for Jeroen Dubbeldam (NED). There was no better first than his final placing in the coveted CN International before a record crowd of 76,947. With so much on the […]
Team USA have won the $350,000 BMO Nations’ Cup today at the Spruce Meadows “Masters” Tournament. In front of a Saturday record crowd of over 69,000 the American Team jumped in championship form to win one of the richest Nations’ Cups in the World. There were eight teams to start the coveted BMO Nations’ Cup […]
Following the success of last month’s FEI Congress on the in-competition use of NSAIDs, free-to-view videos of the entire event are now available on the FEI website here. The Congress, which received widespread acclaim for the high calibre of speakers and the level of debate, was held at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland on […]
Canadian WEG Team member Ashley Holzer won three FEI classes at the Centerline Events at HITS on the Hudson, CDI-W Saugerties, held in Saugerties, NY, August 20–22, 2010. Holzer, originally from Toronto, ON, won both the Prix St. Georges and Intermediaire I tests with Jewel Court Stud VS’ Sonnenstern, an eight-year-old Oldenburg stallion sired by […]
