Experience leads the way after the Dressage phase of the Deloitte Australian International 3 Day Event, the second leg of the HSBC FEI Classics™  2012 series calendar.   Crowd favourite and home town girl Megan Jones heads the leader board after the Dressage in the 4* competition riding her home-bred Kirby Park Irish Jester.   […]

Monopoly, the horse Beth Underhill rode at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, died on November 16 at the age of 32.  Monopoly earned more than $1 million in prize money throughout his illustrious show jumping career, and was inducted into the Jump Canada Hall of Fame in 2008.   Underhill and Monopoly enjoyed one of […]

Equine Canada and the Canadian Equestrian Team extend our heartfelt condolences to Beth Underhill and to everyone at Beth Underhill Stables on the passing of Monopoly. Born in 1979, Monopoly, a Hanoverian Thoroughbred cross gelding, was imported from New Zealand by the Ierullo family for their daughter, Skye. In 1989, Monopoly was sent to Terrance […]

The Equine Canada Nominations Committee would like to remind all interested candidates that deadline to submit nominations for the 2012 Equine Canada Director-at-Large election is fast approaching. Each year the Equine Canada Nominations Committee has the responsibility of presenting a slate of candidates to the membership for the election of a Director-at-large. The Committee is […]

The FEI has announced a further series of key deadlines in the bidding process for the FEI World Equestrian Gamesâ„¢ 2018.   And there is further exciting news for 2018, as Austria has now increased to eight the number of National Federations that have submitted formal Expressions of Interest to the FEI. The Austrian document […]

Harriet Cherry of Nepean, ON, was named the recipient of Jump Canada’s ‘Official of the Year’ Award for 2011. Cherry started her equestrian career as a typical horse-crazy kid who finally convinced her parents to let her start taking riding lessons.  Joining the Rockcliffe Riding Club was just the beginning of what would become a […]

The Australians and New Zealanders are grasping their chance to capitalise on the HSBC FEI Classicsâ„¢, which offers the single biggest prize in Eventing, at the second leg of the 2012 season taking place this weekend at the Adelaide International 3 Day Event in South Australia (November 18-20). This is the first time Adelaide has […]

A record seven National Federations have sent in formal Expressions of Interest to host the FEI World Equestrian Gamesâ„¢ 2018.   Signed Expression of Interest documents have been received from the National Federations of Australia, Canada, Hungary, Morocco, Russia, Sweden, and the USA. The deadline for receipt of signed documentation was midnight CET last night, […]

Amelia Vernon of Calgary, AB, won the Jump Canada Medal Final on November 8 during the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair in Toronto, ON. Following the completion of regional and provincial Jump Canada Medal Finals, the top finishers from across Canada were invited to contest the Jump Canada Medal Final Championship at the Royal Horse Show.  […]

The 2011 FEI General Assembly took place today, Monday November 14th, in Rio de Janeiro (BRA). Click here to review the main decisions.