The Real Club de Polo in Barcelona, Spain plays host to this weekend’s Meydan FEI Nations Cup™ Promotional League Final. The venue staged the equestrian events of the 1992 Olympic Games and, more recently, the finals of the six-year-long Samsung Super League series.  A total of seven countries have qualified to contest for the two […]

Ottawa, Ontario—Dressage Canada and the Own the Podium Task Force are pleased to confirm that three athletes will be participating in the Dressage Canada 2009 European Fall Competition Tour.  The upcoming European Fall Competition Tour is a development tour aimed at providing valuable European competition experience for some of Canada’s up and coming combinations. The […]

Following consultation with National Federations, riders and event organisers, the FEI Bureau today decided that Great Britain and Belgium will both be relegated from the Meydan FEI Nations Cup™. The two teams finished the 2009 season in eighth place on equal points ahead of the Italians, who are also relegated.   The two highest placed […]

Ottawa, ON—The Breeds & Industry Division of Equine Canada would like to inform all stakeholders of the Canadian horse industry that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has removed, on September 10, 2009, the equine piroplasmose related import restrictions on horses from Missouri based on additional information received from the United States Department of Agriculture […]

Two one-hundredths of a second, that’s what winning the $1 million CN International came down to today on the final day of the Spruce Meadows “Masters” Tournament.  The record crowd of 73,736 was treated to spectacular show jumping on a perfect day. There is no greater competition than the CN International and there were no […]

Jump number seven was costly in today’s $75,000 BP Cup at Spruce Meadows.  Course designer Leopoldo Palacios (VEN) cost 18 horse/rider combinations a chance at victory when he added that jump to his 18 jumping effort 600 metre course.  Rich Fellers of the United States is an experienced rider who didn’t let fence number seven […]

Calgary, AB – The Netherlands has not won the $350,000 BMO Nations’ Cup since 1997.  Today in front of a record crowd of 67,789 at Spruce Meadows the Dutch returned to championship form in one of the richest Nations’ Cups in the World. Things didn’t look good early for the Netherlands who lost lead off rider, […]

Calgary, AB – McLain Ward (USA) picked his first competition of the 2009 Spruce Meadows “Masters” Tournament wisely, the $100,000 EnCana Cup.  It was his mare Sapphire that carried the two-time Olympic Gold Medalist American to victory on the Evening of the Horse at Spruce Meadows. The 550 metre course featured 16 jumping efforts and […]

Halifax, Nova Scotia – The top show jumping competitors in the country will be traveling east to compete in the Maritime Fall Fair held October 8-12 at Exhibition Park in Halifax, NS. The highlight of the show jumping competition, a long-standing tradition at the Maritime Fall Fair, will be the $40,000 The LIVERight Cup Grand […]

Ottawa, ON— Para-Equestrian Canada (PEC) is pleased to offer developing athletes the opportunity to attend a Para-dressage workshop in St. Lazare, Que. Oct. 3–4, 2009.  Fionna Christensen, chair of the PEC Coaching Committee, will lead the clinic, and participants will be provided with the chance to train directly under the experienced coach. Christensen will be […]