The equestrian community has only six more days to nominate its heroes for the five categories of the FEI Awards 2011. Nominations for Best Athlete, HSBC Rising Star, Against All Odds, Development and Best Groom have so far arrived from France, Great Britain, Australia, The Netherlands, Canada, Africa, Italy, Mexico, Germany, the USA, South Africa, […]

Para-Equestrians bidding to compete at the London 2012 Paralympic Games can now apply for funding as part of a brand new grant scheme to help with training expenses. Eurovestech plc, the pan-European development capital fund, has put up a €25,500 grant to support 15 equestrian athletes around the world as they prepare for London 2012. […]

Canadian Para-Dressage riders won three out of four of their Individual Freestyle tests during their last day of competition at the Bishop Burton CPEDI 2*, held July 22–24, 2011, at Bishop Burton College, Beverley, GBR. Ashley Gowanlock of Vancouver, BC, won the Grade IB Freestyle riding Alexander (Sandy) Mitchell’s Donnymaskell, a 12-year-old Hanoverian gelding. Gowanlock […]

German riders had it almost all their own way when claiming both the Young Rider and Junior team titles as well as three of the individual gold medals on offer at the FEI European Dressage Championships for Young Riders and Juniors 2011 at Broholm Castle in Denmark this weekend.  But the host nation did themselves […]

Canadian Para-Dressage riders have earned top scores and continued their winning ways during the first two days of competition at the Bishop Burton CPEDI 2*, being held July 22–24, 2011, at Bishop Burton College, Beverley, GBR. In the Grade 1A Novice Test, Jodie Schloss of Toronto, ON, riding Inspector Rebus, her own 13-year-old Dutch Warmblood […]

Kyle King of Ocala, FL, and Ashley Jerome of Calgary, AB, tied to win the $25,000 Full Meal Deal Grand Prix held July 17 during the Mid Summer Classic II produced by Rocky Mountain Show Jumping at Anderson Ranch in Calgary, AB.   Run in a unique format, the $25,000 Full Meal Deal Grand Prix […]

France’s double Olympic champion Pierre Jonqueres d’Oriola passed away at his home in the Pyrenees on Tuesday 19 July. He was aged 91. Born on 1 February 1920, d’Oriola won individual gold in the Jumping at the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki riding Ali Baba. This was the second Olympic medal for the d’Oriola family in […]

“I am delighted that I was able to win here three times in a sold-out stadium,“ said Matthias Alexander Rath overjoyed after his ride on Totilas in the “Deutsche Bank Prize“, the Grand Prix Freestyle CDIO. “Now we can return home with a great feeling and train for three or four weeks in a tranquil […]

The second week of the Classique Internationale Blainville ended with the much-awaited 1.60 m World Cup Qualifier, and its Government of Québec sponsored $60 000 prize. Canadian Hugh Graham clenched victory, a mere two seconds ahead of young Elizabeth Bates from Ontario. Beth Underhill was the last rider on the podium. The only Québec native […]

Top driver Boyd Exell (AUS) has continued his amazing success story in Aachen. Crowned World Champion at the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games™ in Kentucky last year, and winner of the FEI World Cup™ Driving Final for the third consecutive time in Leipzig in April this year, the Australian has won this year’s prestigious CAIO […]