American Olympian, McLain Ward, broke his leg while competing at the FTI Winter Equestrian Festival in Wellington, Florida, on the evening of January 14th. Riding Oh d’Eole, in the $30,000 Surpass Grand Prix, Ward caught his knee on a jump standard mid-air on a one-stride combination.  “She jumped so high jumping into the combination over […]

Great Britain’s Carl Hester will compete at the World Dressage Masters Palm Beach presented by International Polo Club Palm Beach , which takes place from January 26th to 28th, 2012. Hester led the British Dressage Team to a historic gold medal at the 2011 European Dressage Championships, and went on to win individual silver riding […]

The Equine Canada Competitions and Officials committees are pleased to announce the success of the second year of the Equine Canada Bronze Officials Subsidy Program Pilot. With close to $6,000 awarded in 2011 to Bronze level competition organizers to assist them in securing licensed officials for their events; this is a program that has quickly […]

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Brazil’s Sarah Vasconcellos clinched her second gold medal of the Championships when taking the Individual title on the final day of the FEI Children’s International Classics Final in Hong Kong today.  Silver went to the host nation’s Arianna Ladd, while South Africa’s Cameron Dawson was the well-deserved recipient of the bronze.  Vasconcellos also helped the […]

Olympic champion Eric Lamaze is the new co-owner of Wang Chung m2s, formerly ridden by Germany’s Felix Hassmann. Lamaze recently purchased a 50 per cent share in the young superstar, bred by Morningside Stud. Wang Chung m2s is a 2003 chestnut KWPN stallion, with impressive international show jumping results. Under Hassmann, he won five German […]

Hans-Heinrich Isenbart (GER), who will be remembered by many as “the voice of equestrian sport” in Germany, passed away on December 25, 2011 at the age of 88.   He was born on February 5, 1923 in Vienna (AUT) into a family that had a passion for horses going back generations. As a young man he had […]

The FEI has today given final sign-off on the footing that will be used for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Equestrian Events at Greenwich Park.   The London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) conducted footing tests at a site near Preston in the north of England on December 20-21,2011. The […]

Christopher Schofield (GBR), former Chairman of Great Britain’s Young Rider Selectors programme, passed away on January 4th at the age of 90.   Many young British Eventing riders enjoyed success during his leadership of the Young Rider Selectors programme, including William Fox-Pitt, Tina Cook and Pippa Funnell.    Jane Holderness-Roddam, who secured team gold in Eventing […]

It is with sincere regret that Equine Canada reports that Akaash Maharaj has announced his decision to stand down from his post as our Chief Executive Officer.  Akaash accepted the position of CEO in 2008, stating that he would remain in the role for one quadrennial cycle. “The years have rushed by faster than I […]