Members of the media are invited to join the Ontario Equestrian Federation for Toronto Horse Day, a free family event designed to give people of all ages the opportunity see horses up close, learn about riding and watch exciting performances featuring different horse breeds. Date: Saturday, June 6, 2015 Time: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. […]
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Megan Lane and Brittany Fraser both earned back-to-back wins at the CDI 3* Ottawa Dressage Festival, which took place May 28-31 at Wesley Clover Parks in Ottawa, Ont., and acted as the final TORONTO 2015 Pan Am Games qualifier for the Canadian Dressage Team. Lane, who calls Loretto, Ont. home, opened the CDI big tour […]
History was made at the World Equestrian Festival Aachen in Germany when Scott Brash, riding Hello Sanctos, won the first major equestrian event of the year, the Rolex Grand Prix, and his second stage of the Rolex Grand Slam of Show Jumping. Scott Brash is the first rider to achieve this remarkable feat since the […]
Since its outset 10 years ago, William Fox Pitt and owner Catherine Witt have enjoyed numerous successes at Tattersalls highlighted by Rolex Kentucky winner Bay My Hero, a winner of the 1*, 2* and 3* classes at the Ratoath venue. This year saw another horse in the same winning partnership take the new Cooley Farm CCI1* […]
The German team made their first appearance in FEI Nations Cup™ Eventing 2015 a winning one when they arrived on British soil and captured the third leg in the beautiful and historic surroundings of Houghton Hall (GBR) this weekend. The home side, Great Britain, finished second out of the six teams and now heads the […]
Col. Chris Hadfield, the first Canadian to walk in space, and Rosie MacLennan, world champion and Olympic and Pan Am trampoline gold medallist, helped kick off Day 1 of the TORONTO 2015 Pan Am Games Torch Relay, presented by President’s Choice® and OLG, On May 30th. To mark the historic day, both Col. Hadfield and […]
Sam Griffiths from Australia has taken the lead in the Irish Field CCI3* riding Favorit Z on a score of 36.1 after the dressage phase at Tattersalls International Horse Trials and Country Fair in association with Horse Sport Ireland. Lying in second place is Great Britain’s Flora Harris riding Bayano on a score of 37.40 […]
In a competition of wildly fluctuating fortunes for many of the nine competing nations, the Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup™ Jumping 2015 Europe Division 2 League leg at Lisbon, Portugal was won by a rock-solid performance from the Spanish team tonight. And, to the delight of the home crowd, the Portuguese produced a much-improved second round […]
Brittany Fraser of New Glasgow, N.S. pulled off a hat trick aboard All In, winning all three small tour classes at the CDI Equivents Spring Classic.
Sable Giesler of Powassan, Ont. rode to a top five finish in the CIC 2* division at the Virginia Horse Trials, held May 21-24 in Lexington, Va. Riding her seven-year-old Dutch Warmblood gelding, Devil Munchkin (Casiro x No Ski), Giesler completed the dressage phase with a score of 51.40 penalty points to stand in 15th […]