The fifth FEI Young Rider and Junior World Endurance Championships took place from 4 to 6 September 2009 in Babolna, Hungary. The run up to the competition was hot and dry with temperatures reaching 34 degrees during the week prior to the competition. Whilst Hungary have previously hosted Driving Championships this was the first time […]

Halton Hills, On – A young rider from Colombia made his Canadian debut an auspicious one last Sunday (September 6) by winning the Swisscan $100,000 World Cup Qualifier at Halton Place. Daniel Bluman, 19, and his 14-year-old Hanoverian ‘Fatalis Fatum’ finished on top in a field of 19 international riders in the grand prix, held week […]

Calgary, Alberta – Anderson Ranch in Calgary, AB, played host to three weeks of top level show jumping competition with the Rocky Mountain Classic tournaments. Calgary’s own John Anderson won the first of two featured events, the $50,000 Oilpatch Grand Prix on Saturday, August 22, while Marshall Whyte of Cochrane, AB, won the $50,000 Friends […]

It’s rare that Oliver Townend (GBR) is lost for words, but the ever-ebullient Yorkshireman had tears in his eyes as he completed one of Eventing’s rarest doubles, show jumping clear on Carousel Quest to win The Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials (GBR) and extend his lead in the HSBC FEI Classics™ to 12 points over […]

Oliver Townend retained his lead at The Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials in the most stylish fashion on the elegant grey Carousel Quest and now has a jumping fence in hand to score a rare double, following his Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials victory in May, and take a commanding lead in the HSBC FEI […]

The violently windy conditions at The Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials (GBR) proved no handicap to the leader after Dressage, Oliver Townend (GBR), who is also heading the HSBC FEI Classics™ at this fourth leg of the worldwide series of CCI 4s.   Townend, 26, conjured a beautiful, light performance out of the elegant grey […]

Aurora, Ontario – Horse Sport is proud to present Olympic Gold medalist Heike Kemmer in her first Canadian clinic on September 25, 26 & 27 at Stirling Hill Farm in King City, ON. In conjunction with this event, Schleese Saddlery is hosting a complimentary reception for all clinic attendees from 5pm to 7pm on Friday […]

Crunch-time approaches in the HSBC FEI Classics™, as a star-studded cast lines up for the fourth and penultimate leg, The Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials (GBR) this weekend (3-6 September).   The big question is can William Fox-Pitt, last year’s HSBC FEI Classics™ winner, maintain his extraordinary record here with a third successive triumph and […]

Ottawa, Ontario—Karl Slezak of Tottenham, ON, and Don J. Good’s 13-year-old Irish Sport Horse gelding, Charley Farley, topped the Canadian entries in the advanced CIC 3* division at the Richland Park Horse Trials in Richland, MI, held August 20–23, 2009. Posting a dressage score of 54.8, adding only 4.8 time penalties over Ian Stark’s cross-country […]

Ottawa, ON—Canadian riders won two out of three small tour FEI classes at the Centerline Events at HITS on the Hudson, CDI-W Saugerties, held in Saugerties, NY, August 14–16, 2009. Cheryl Meisner of Blandford, NS, and Lucky Strike, John Risley’s 16-year-old Dutch Warmblood gelding (Ferro x Aktion), started the Canadian winning streak with a victory […]