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 […]

The experienced pairing of Simone Deitermann (GER) and Flambeau H3 became the first European combination to post a win in the 2009 HSBC FEI World Cup™ Eventing, leading the qualifier at Marbach (GER) from start to finish. Deitermann, 28, scored 32.3 in the Dressage, establishing a clear lead of nearly 5 penalties over compatriot Dirk […]

The FEI has announced the composition of the Ethics Panel formed to assess and further investigate practices among members of the German equestrian team. The Panel will be chaired by former Metropolitan Police Commissioner Lord Stevens (GBR). David O’Connor (USA), Olympic champion and President of the United States Equestrian Federation, Ken Lalo (ISR), chairman of […]

Oliver Townend realised a lifelong dream when he won the 60th anniversary Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials and, at 26, became the youngest British rider to win since the likes of Ginny Elliot and Lucinda Green in the 1980s and 1970s. Townend, a hugely successful and hard-working rider on the national circuit in Britain, not […]

  Karin Donckers lit up a blustery arena with a typically soft and supple Dressage test on Gazelle de la Brasserie at The Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials (GBR), the second leg of the HSBC FEI Classics™, and became the first Belgian rider to lead the field at this event. The combination, who lay 2nd […]

Emily Baldwin (GBR) and Drivetime produced an assured and expressive test to deservedly take the lead with 42.3 penalties after the first day of dressage at The Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials (GBR), the second leg of the HSBC FEI Classics™. Baldwin, 28, who finished 25th last year, has 1.5 penalties in hand over the […]