Madrid, Spain – Olympic Champion Eric Lamaze, 41, of Schomberg, ON, opened competition in Madrid, Spain, on Thursday by winning two classes and placing second in another. For the third year in a row, Lamaze is competing at the CSI5* Madrid International Show Jumping Tournament running May 21-24. In the first competition of the day, […]

Jacksonville, Florida – Nicole Shinton of Uxbridge, ON, won several classes during the Horse Shows in The Park Spring Dressage Classic held May 16-17 at the Jacksonville Equestrian Center in Jacksonville, FL. With her two horses, GB Marko and GB Classic, Shinton dominated the Prix St. Georges division. On Saturday, Shinton won the Prix St. […]

Palgrave, ON – Out of a field of twenty five riders, including three of Canada’s 2008 silver medalists, 24 year old Kimberley Farlinger of Annan, Ontario emerged victorious in the $50,000 Grand Prix at Palgrave Phase I this past Sunday.  Four riders successfully completed world renowned course designer Conrad Homfeld’s first round course. Toronto’s Courtney […]

The Sandra Sillcox Memorial Awards are in recognition of the Canadian Pony Club’s 75th Anniversary and of long-time supporter, Sandra Sillcox. These awards are for 2009 only. Sandra Sillcox started her Pony Club career in the Eglinton Pony Club in 1946, where she later achieved her A.  As an adult, she was DC of Toronto North […]

Lisa Lazarus has joined the FEI as General Counsel to manage and oversee the organisation’s legal activities. Lisa, who holds Canadian and US citizenship, comes to us after almost ten (10) years at the National Football League (NFL), where she was based primarily in New York (USA) as in-house counsel and then more recently in […]

In a fantastic fight to the finish, the Swiss team pipped the feisty Swedes for the very first Meydan FEI Nations Cup™ honours at La Baule in France today. After two gruelling rounds, the countries were tied on a score of eight faults each, so it came down to a thrilling jump-off between Swiss veteran […]

Ottawa, Ontario—The Canadian Reining Committee (CRC) and the High Performance sub-Committee of Equine Canada is pleased to announce that the selection criteria for the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games (WEG) is now posted on the Equine Canada website at http://www.equinecanada.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=525&Itemid=455.   The qualification period for the event is January 1, 2009 to July 5, […]

The British team will have plenty of time to assess the challenges set by course-designer Frederic Cottier when last of the ten teams into the ring tomorrow for the opening leg of the Meydan FEI Nations Cup™ series at La Baule in France. The draw was made earlier today, and it is George Morris’s American […]

Mark Todd (NZL), the dual Olympic Champion who came out of an 8-year retirement in 2008, makes his first return to the Chatsworth International Horse Trials (GBR) since 2000. He will lend star quality to the 4th leg of the 2009 HSBC FEI World Cup™ Eventing competition, a class which has already attracted a star-studded […]

International Jumping rider Jean-Claude Van Geenberghe (BEL / UKR), 46, passed away on Saturday 9 May while competing at an event in the Ukraine, where he had recently taken up residency. Jean-Claude Van Geenberghe was widely known and respected on the international Jumping circuit, competing at the highest level. His exceptional riding skills were first […]