Justin Prather of Calgary, AB, finished one-two in the $7,500 Lynn Millar Memorial Speed Derby held Friday, July 15, at the Ottawa National Horse Show running at Wesley Clover Parks in Ottawa, ON. Speed was the name of the game and Prather proved to be the master of faster, taking the win with Beau Soleil […]
The 2008 Olympic Show Jumping Champion Eric Lamaze of Schomberg, ON, won his second event of the week in Aachen, Germany, riding his Rio Olympic mount, Fine Lady 5. The pair won the €62,700 Turkish Airlines Prize of Europe on Wednesday before topping the €100,000 Prize of North Rhine-Westphalia on Friday, July 15. The victory […]
Canadian course designer Michel Vaillancourt has been selected to set the tracks for the 5* International Horse Show of Lausanne, Sept. 8-11 on Lake Geneva in Switzerland. With the incredible depth of course-designing talent in Europe, this is quite an unusual honour. “I think it was a little bit by luck ‒ and I’ll take […]
Equine Canada officially transitioned to a new and exciting brand, including a new logo and the new name Equestrian Canada (EC).
On another day of fabulous sport, the host nation of Hungary claimed pole position at the sixth leg of the Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup™ Jumping 2016 Europe Division 2 League in Budapest. It was hard-won however, with the result decided in a nail-biting jump-off against the clock. In the closest of contests, Team Italy’s Luca […]
To no one’s actual surprise, and the Canadian equestrian community’s profound disappointment, it is likely that the World Equestrian Games set for August 11-26, 2018, at the Bromont Olympic Equestrian Park are going to be cancelled after the Government of Canada informed the Organizing Committee that it won’t support the games. A statement from the […]
It was an impressive silver medal finish for Team Canada in the first ever eventing Nations’ Cup to be held in North America. Running as part of the Land Rover CICO*** Great Meadows International, July 8-19 in The Plains, VA, teams from Canada, Great Britain and the United States, battled it out to determine equestrian […]
Eric Lamaze of Schomberg, ON, scored victory riding Fine Lady 5 in Aachen, Germany, on Wednesday, July 13. The 2008 Canadian Olympic Show Jumping Champion was one of 60 challengers in the €62,700 Turkish Airlines Prize of Europe riding Fine Lady 5. Lamaze, with Fine Lady 5, has been nominated to the Canadian Olympic Committee, […]
The Canadian Olympic Committee and Equestrian Canada have named the 10 athletes nominated to represent Canada at the Rio 2016 Olympic
A critical blow has been dealt to the Bromont 2018 WEG, as Carla Qualtrough, the Minister of Sport and Persons with Disabilities, has declined to support the event. “The federal government can not support the presentation of the 2018 World Equestrian Games through Sport Canada. The Games have an approximate $100 million budget. The financial […]
