Ottawa, Ontario—Dressage Canada is pleased to announce the selection criteria for the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games (WEG). The criteria can be found on the Equine Canada website at http://www.equinecanada.ca/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=833&Itemid=371&lang=en-GB.   The qualification period runs from July 1, 2009 to July 31, 2010.  During this time, athletes must achieve four Grand Prix scores of […]

Ottawa, Ontario—Rochelle Kilberg of Surrey, BC, and Simone Williams of Navan, ON, won the team bronze medal at the Sydney CDI 3*/CDI–Y International Dressage Derby being held in Sydney, Australia, May 7–9, 2009. The event, hosted at the Sydney International Equestrian Centre at Horsley Park, site of the 2000 Olympic Games, is the only CDI3* […]

Langley, BC – Of the 29 horse rider combinations to challenge Sunday’s $50,000 CSI2* Thunderbird Show Park Grand Prix held May 31, only two would go clear. The rest would find themselves at odds with many of the jumps on course. In the end, it was California-based Ali Nilforushan who rode to victory on the Darco […]

Oliver Townend (GBR) will be hoping to maintain momentum when all eyes turn to Germany this weekend for the third of the HSBC FEI Classics™, the Luhmuehlen CCI**** presented by E.ON Avacon Vertrieb on 11-14 June. Townend’s eye-catching victory at the Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials last month, coupled with 8th place at the Rolex […]

Palgrave, ON – It was a successful weekend for Cornerstone’s Spring In To Dressage at the Caledon Equestrian Park.  With more than three hundred horses competing and over a thousand dressage tests performed over the weekend, it was said to be one of, if not the biggest dressage show ever held in Canada. Friday’s Grand […]

Ottawa, On – Canadian Eventing Committee is pleased to announce a support program for riders to compete in three and four star events in Great Britain this fall.   The Canadian Eventing Committee and its High Performance Committee (HPC) are pleased to announce the availability of support grants for those riders interested in competing at […]

The Americans scored a sensational back-to-back double when following their win in Rome last Friday with another superb victory in the third leg of the Meydan FEI Nations Cup™ series at St Gallen, Switzerland today.  The 2009 season has already turned into the perfect celebration of the 100-year history of Nations Cup jumping as, once […]

The FEI Tribunal today communicated two decisions in the cases brought before it last week in which the FEI had sought provisional suspensions of the rider Marco Kutscher, former team veterinarian Björn Nolting, and FEI Bureau member Hanfried Haring. In the matters involving Mr Kutscher and Dr Haring, the Tribunal denied the request for provisional […]

The host country is firm favourite to win the third leg of the Meydan FEI Nations Cup™ series in St Gallen, Switzerland tomorrow.  Already heading up the leaderboard after two excellent early-season performances, the Swiss are drawn seventh to go following today’s draw. The starting order is as follows:  1, France; 2, USA; 3, The […]

Swiss Chef d’Equipe, Rolf Grass, is taking no chances as the Meydan FEI Nations Cup™ arrives at his home venue of St Gallen this week.  He has selected the best possible team in an effort to cement the lead his country has established after the first two legs of the series, and for Swiss show […]