The eagerly-awaited 2009 HSBC FEI World Cup ™ Eventing season kicks off this weekend at the ‘down under’ venue of Kikikihi in New Zealand’s North Island. It will be staged during Easter on April 10-12 and will be the first of the nine prestigious world-wide qualifiers. Twenty riders from New Zealand and Australia • For […]

Charlotte, NC – The 2009 Charlotte Jumper Classic, CSI 5* will be held this week on April 10-12 at the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, NC. The highlight event is the $450,000 Grand Prix of Charlotte. Many of the top show jumpers in the world will be in Charlotte to compete for the best […]

Through his official representative, HH Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, on Friday, 3rd April 2009, took the unprecedented step, for an FEI athlete, of contacting the FEI’s Legal Department to advise them that, following routine post competition testing carried out by Sheikh Mohammed’s own personnel, his team had reported to him positive tests in […]

Eventer, Jessica Ruppel of Fergus, ON, was involved in a hit-and-run accident last week as she rode a promising young horse along a rural road on a hack with a friend. Collingwood OPP are now investigating the incident, which left the three-year-old Hanoverian filly, Royal Symphony (aka Bella) dead and Ruppel with minor injuries. Ruppel […]

Ottawa, Ontario—Equine Canada would like to announce that for the first time, all Canadian riders attending the 2009 North American Junior and Young Rider Championships will be drug tested according to the Canadian Anti-Doping Program (CADP). CADP is the set of rules that govern doping control in Canada and is compliant with the World Anti-Doping […]

Ocala, Florida – Canadian Olympian Beth Underhill won the $50,000 Ocala International Grand Prix, Presented by Brook Ledge Inc., held Sunday, April 5, during the first of two weeks of competition at the Ocala Jumping Classic held at the Florida Horse Park in Ocala, Florida. A total of 27 horses attempted the track set by […]

Renee Hicks, one of Canada’s top Polocrosse players, has been invited to join the U.S. Junior Polocrosse Team for a series of test matches in South Africa. Matches will be held near Durban, June 6-7, and outside Johannesburg, June 13-14 The South African teams are amongst the best Polocrosse players in the world – the […]

Tampa, FL – There is just one day left before the grand finale of the 2008 Tampa Equestrian Festival, the $200,000 Budweiser American Invitational. The Tampa Equestrian Festival is currently being hosted at the Bob Thomas Equestrian Center located on the Florida State Fairgrounds, and will continue through Saturday, April 4. The $200,000 Budweiser American […]

Ottawa, ON— The start of the international eventing season in North America on the weekend of March 27-29th featured competitions on both east and west coasts. Canadian Olympian, Sandra Donnelly and her Olympic partner, Buenos Aires, finished in fourth place in the CIC 3* division at Galway Downs International Horse Trials, in Temecula, CA. Donnelly, […]

Today the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) rendered its decision in the prohibited substance case involving the horse Cöster ridden by Christian Ahlmann (GER) at the 2008 Olympic Games. The CAS upheld the appeal of the German Equestrian Federation against the decision of the FEI Tribunal dated 22 October and dismissed the appeal of […]