Reining may yet win a reprieve from the FEI. Delegates at the FEI General Assembly (GA) in Moscow next month (November 16-19) were expecting to remove reining from the FEI family, but it has emerged the FEI is in active talks with the National Reining Horse Association (NRHA) to find a new way of working […]
Tougher new sanctions for dangerous riding, abuse and blood on the horse will apply from January 2020 in FEI eventing, if agreed by the FEI General Assembly in Moscow next month. Eventing now has more field-of-play sanctions for horse abuse and dangerous riding than any other horse sport, including the troubled discipline of endurance, though […]
The FEI is shelving a plan to stop awarding individual medals for the Grand Prix Special (GPS) at world and continental dressage championships, after strong protests from Canada, the U.S. and other national federations (NFs). Opponents of change were baffled why the classic set test that highlights correct training was deemed dispensable, as were the […]
The Ontario SPCA and Humane Society has issued two new commemorative pins leading up to Remembrance Day to honour the wartime contributions of Canada’s veterans and the animals who stood bravely by their side. The Animals in War commemorative pins were launched by the Ontario SPCA in 2017, with a new design unveiled each year […]
The acting head of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, William Perry Pendley, has said it will take five billion dollars and 15 years control the overpopulation of wild horses on federal lands in the western United States. The current population of 88,000 mustangs and burros, the majority of which reside in Nevada, needs to […]
All the electricity used at the Helsinki International Horse Show, which hosted yesterday’s Longines FEI World Cup™ Show Jumping qualifier, was generated with horse manure. Over 150 megawatt hours of energy was created from the 100 tons of manure collected from competing horses during the four-day event in the Finnish capital. Ireland was represented at […]
At the top of the provisional leaderboard after the dressage test, still in the lead after the cross-country competition, and after a splendid clean sweep in the show-jumping competition this afternoon, British rider Tom McEwen rode to victory, winning his first CCI 5*-L on his French Saddle gelding, Toledo de Kerser. He came in ahead […]
Plenty of surprises in thrill-a-minute second leg Britain’s Robert Whitaker posted a sensational victory in the second leg of the Longines FEI Jumping World Cup™ 2019/2020 Western European League at Helsinki in Finland today with his long-time ride, Catwalk IV. In a competition that had spectators on the edges of their seats from start to […]
With the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games taking place in the summer of 2020, athletes in all Olympic disciplines are hard at work to qualify. Equestrian disciplines are no different, and the Ocala Jockey Club International 3-Day Event, Nov. 14-17, is proud to serve as the only Olympic qualifying Event in the Southeast USA for 3-Day […]
Sam Walker simply could not be beaten in the Lindsay Maxwell Charitable Fund WIHS Equitation Finals, leading all three phases from start to finish on Waldo.
