Ottawa, Ontario—Equine Canada and contest sponsors, Members First, John Deere, SoftStall and Greenhawk Harness and Supplies are pleased to announce “Win Your Way to WEG,” a dynamic contest that will award one lucky entrant a trip for two to the 2010 World Equestrian Games (WEG) in Lexington, Kentucky. Beginning June 1, 2009, and running through […]

There was a fairytale ending to the HSBC FEI World Cup™ Eventing at Tattersalls (IRL) when husband-and-wife team Patricia and Michael Ryan finished first and second, thrilling the large and patriotic crowd and keeping victory at Ireland’s showpiece event at home for the second year. The final Jumping phase lived up to its billing as […]

St. Lazare, Quebec – Hometown favourite Angela Lawrence of St. Lazare, QC, won the $25,000 Grand Prix of St. Lazare on Saturday, May 30, at the 35th Annual Pépinière and St. Lazare Horse Shows in St. Lazare, QC. Lawrence battled Olympic Team Silver Medalist Ian Millar for the victory with the hometown favourite emerging victorious. […]

The FEI President has recently established an Ethics Panel in accordance with Article 38 of the FEI Statutes. The Panel is to investigate and assess certain matters concerning the German Equestrian Team that may constitute violations of the relevant FEI rules and make recommendations on a course of action. It has been asked to consider […]

The USA stood top of the presentation podium when winning the second leg of the Meydan FEI Nations Cup™ series in Rome today, completing with just four faults.  It was an historic fourth victory at the Italian venue for an American side – they previously topped the line-up at the Piazza di Siena in 1997 […]

The German Equestrian Federation has dissolved their show jumping, dressage and three-day eventing teams and suspended four-time Olympic champion Ludger Beerbaum as the result of a rash of doping allegations following the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Beerbaum was quoted in the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeinen as saying, “I had the attitude that anything that will not […]

On Friday May 29, 2009, just two days after having seen the exciting final match for the crown of European club football, Italian capital Rome will be back in the spotlight of international top level sport by hosting the second leg of the 100th anniversary edition of team jumping’s most important annual competition, the Meydan […]

Further to a request made by a majority of the FEI Bureau members, the FEI Headquarters today filed a protest with the FEI Tribunal on the basis of widely reported admissions by Marco Kutscher and Björn Nolting concerning the undeclared treatment given to Marco Kutscher’s horse, Cornet Obolensky, at the 2008 Olympic Games, and the […]

The Commission chaired by Prof. Arne Ljungqvist, Chair of the IOC Medical Commission and World Anti Doping Agency Vice President, has presented its recommendations to the FEI Bureau, which agreed in principle to the Commission’s recommendations and further agreed to the creation of several smaller Working Groups to carry the work forward. These Groups have […]

Ottawa, ON—Para-Equestrian Canada is pleased to announce that Andrea Taylor, from Langley, BC, has extended her commitment as the national team coach for Para-Equestrian Canada until the 2010 World Equestrian Games.   Taylor, a certified Level 3 Dressage coach, has been the national team coach for the Canadian Para-Equestrian Team since 2007.    Taylor has […]