Great Britain, winners of last year’s FEI Nations Cup™ Eventing, scored a close victory over France in the second leg of the 2014 series, which was held for the first time at Ballindenisk (IRL) last weekend. The French, successful on home ground last month at Fontainebleau, made the long trip across the Channel in the […]
Equine Canada and the Canadian Reining Committee is now accepting applications from qualified candidates interested in fulfilling the role of Chef d’Equipe – Reining, for the 2014 Alltech World Equestrian Games™ being held in Normandy France August 23 to September 7, 2014. The successful candidate will provide leadership in the management of the Reining Team at […]
Diane Creech earned high scores and top placings throughout the 2014 Adequan Global Dressage Festival in Wellington, FL. After three intensive months of training and competing her string of horses owned by Leatherdale Farms, the Canadian rider is heading back to her home base in Ontario. Season highlights for Creech include several top finishes in […]
The composition and remit of the FEI Endurance Task Force, announced by the FEI Executive Board on April 8th, have been finalised. The mission of the Task Force is to develop practical solutions to ensure horse welfare and a level playing field at Endurance events globally, and to look at deploying modern technology to achieve […]
Horse-Canada.com is pleased to introduce two new blogs to our line-up: The Rusty Stirrup, by Alexa Cheater, and Blazing a Trail, by Leanna Marchant. After wrapping up her “mostly unremarkable junior career,” Alexa Cheater opted to pursue higher education. Now, more than a decade later, she’s gearing up to get back in the saddle and […]
During the meeting on March 30th held between the FEI and His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, where the FEI was represented by its two Vice Presidents, John McEwen and Pablo Mayorga, and FEI Secretary General Ingmar De Vos, some additional but significant points were discussed to create a more equitable field of […]
Will Coleman’s Conair and Andrew McConnon’s Powderhouse both died this past weekend at The Fork Horse Trials in Norwood, North Carolina, held April 5-6, 2014. Competing in his first two-star event, Powderhouse, a 15-year-old Australian Thoroughbred, collapsed and died following the stadium jumping phase on April 5th. Though McConnon was mounted at the time, he […]
While ticket sales for the 2014 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games™ have been open since March 4th, this did not include tickets for the Final Four of Jumping, the last event of the Games, to be followed by the closing ceremony in Caen’s d’Ornano Stadium on September 7th. As these tickets are highly sought after, […]
The deadline for the Nova Scotia Equestrian Federation(NSEF) Educational Bursary Program is fast approaching, on May 1st. The NSEF Educational Bursary Program is a financial bursary funded by the NSEF to assist NSEF members attending a post-secondary educational institution. Up to six awards of $500 each will be given out yearly to active NSEF members […]
Just one week after IOC President Thomas Bach announced a 23% increase in female representation on IOC commissions, Lisa Lazarus, FEI’s Chief of Business Development and Strategy will be addressing the SportAccord Convention held in Belek (TUR) this week on the topic of women in sport. Lazarus features on the first panel in tomorrow’s (April […]
