Equine Canada is pleased to announce that the Dressage Canada High Performance Committee (DCHPC) together with the Canadian Dressage Athlete Assistance Program (C-DAAP) has confirmed support in the amount of $22,500 for any Canadian athlete who qualifies and represents Canada at the Reem Acra FEI World Cup Final scheduled for April 17th – 21st, 2014 […]

Day 2 of showjumping got underway in Doha, Qatar, with the small tour CSI3*, which was won by Rashid Towaim Al Marri riding Kannada. (This was the only chance to hear anything that sounds remotely like ‘Canada’ spoken over the PA here, as there are unfortunately no Canadians at this rich event.) This win marked […]

Four classes launched the first day of FEI jumping competition at the CHI Al Shaqab in Doha, Qatar, on March 12th. Bob Ellis (GBR), who set the tracks for the 2012 London Olympics, is the course designer for this major show – the biggest of its kind to date in Asia. The hot, breezy afternoon […]

Canadian eventing athletes commenced the international season last weekend competing at the CIC3*/2*/1* Red Hills International Horse Trials held in Tallahassee, FL. USA. Heavy rains on Thursday’s opening day may have caused some competitors to tweak their riding style but that wasn’t enough to stop 2012 Olympian Jessica Phoenix of Cannington, ON, from taking the […]

Stem cell therapy at the Ontario Veterinary College (OVC) Health Sciences Centre is yielding promising results in the treatment of tendon injuries in horses. Two horses are currently being treated using allogous stem cells – cells that were banked and transplanted from another donor horse – a medical first in Canada and among only a […]

Horse-Canada.com is pleased to welcome Lesley Grant-Law as our newest blogger. A Canadian eventer, based in Ocala, Florida, Lesley runs Law Eventing with her husband, Olympian Leslie Law. In addition to training clients and their horses, giving clinics, buying and selling horses and competing her own mounts, Lesley is mom to four-year-old Liam, who she […]

World Horse Welfare, the international horse charity, has become the fourth of the former FEI Associate Members to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the FEI. The FEI has collaborated with World Horse Welfare for over 30 years, developing the FEI Equine Welfare Code of Conduct, funding sport horse development projects through its FEI […]

Week 9 began with Tuesday’s viewing of VDL Stud’s exciting young jumper prospects, which had been flown in from The Netherlands several days previously. Seventeen horses were presented under saddle individually, each shown at the trot and canter and over jumps. The exuberant jumping and feisty behaviour by some of the horses was very entertaining […]

Leading international equine welfare organisation the Brooke has captured 80 years of its veterinary expertise in a pioneering book out this month. The Working Equid Veterinary Manual is the first of its kind in the veterinary industry. Hundreds of copies are being distributed to vets and para-vets around the world as a reference manual to […]

Brazil’s Rodrigo Pessoa jumped to victory with Citizenguard Cadjanine Z in Saturday night’s $280,000 FEI World Cup™ Grand Prix CSI-W 4*, presented by The Bainbridge Companies, at the 2014 FTI Consulting Winter Equestrian Festival (FTI WEF) in Wellington, FL. The class featured a roster of the world’s top riders and saw a win for the […]