The Dressage Selection Committee is pleased to announce the selected athletes who will represent Canada at the 2011 Adequan FEI North American Junior & Young Rider Championships. Presented by Gotham North, these Championships will be held July 25–31, 2011 at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, KY. Three complete teams and one individual, for a […]

Canadian actor, musician, recording artist, author and horse-lover William Shatner, is supporting the HSBC Rising Star category of the FEI Awards, the scheme organised annually by the Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI), the governing body of horse sport, to celebrate equestrian heroes. Shatner’s role as Captain James T. Kirk in the science fiction TV series Star […]

The fourth leg of the FEI Nations Cup™, which will take place on Friday 8 July in Falsterbo (SWE), will be broadcast LIVE on FEI TV, the official FEI video platform, according to the following schedule:   – 1st round: 12.30 GMT (14.30 CEST) – 2nd round: 14.30 GMT (16.30 CEST)   To get in […]

Great Britain’s Piggy French and DHI Topper maintained the lead they established in the dressage arena yesterday with a superb cross-country run at the Greenwich Park Eventing Invitational (CIC**) in London (GBR) today. They go into tomorrow’s final jumping phase with more than a fence in hand over Sweden’s Sara Algotsson Ostholt and Mrs Medicott, […]

Iain Ritchie learned at the forge of a true master – a seventh-generation farrier who kept the Ritchie family’s horses on solid footing east of Edinburgh, Scotland. And if Ritchie didn’t appreciate the tradition, the honour, or the pride involved in the anvil’s ring back then . . . well, he sure does now. “This […]

American team veteran Rich Fellers jumped to victory at Spruce Meadows today in the $65,000 ESSO Challenge World Cup. Fellers teamed up with his 15 year Irish bred stallion, Flexible, to post two flawless rounds over the Michel Vaillancourt (CAN) designed courses. Nine of the 24 starters advanced to the jump off after answering all […]

There was a huge buzz of anticipation and excitement as the first horse inspection for the Greenwich Park Eventing Invitational (CIC **) got underway in London (GBR) this afternoon at the first LOCOG test event in the build-up to London 2012. Over the next three days, the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games will […]

Show jumping legend Ian Millar showed the world why he is still considered amongst the best in the sport by winning the RBC Financial Group Cup in convincing fashion at Spruce Meadows today. Millar, riding his 2008 Olympic team silver medal partner In Style, posted the lone clear round over the 550 meter, 16 jumping […]

Two time Olympic gold medalist McLain Ward (USA) bested an international entry of 52 to score his first victory of the Spruce Meadows “Canada One” Tournament in the WESTJET Cup. Riding his 10 year old Dutch gelding, Pjotter, Ward piloted two clear rounds, with a blazing trip around the jump off course of 42.52 seconds […]

The eight-leg FEI Nations Cup™ 2011 series reaches the halfway stage when it resumes, after a four-week break, at Falsterbo, Sweden next Friday (July 8), and with The Netherlands holding a solid lead at the top of the league table.  Once again this will be a nine-nation contest as the host country is entitled to […]