The Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI) has signed a new four-year contract with IMG Media (IMG), a division of the global sports, fashion and media company IMG Worldwide, that will ensure global distribution of the FEI’s major equestrian events to television audiences worldwide. The contract runs through to the end of 2014. The renewed agreement covers […]

Open Letter from the Chair of Jump Canada In March of 2010, Jump Canada established a Task Force to review its current competition policy, to update it for future years, and to address the continuing need to stay current with the existing status of the sport in Canada. The Task Force was charged with examining […]

Eric Lamaze, ranked number 2 in the world, who won the Repsol Trophy during the Global Champions Tour, putting in a time of 47.76 seconds, riding mare Coriana Van Klapscheut. This is the same horse that obtained another victory in the previous day’s Iberia Trophy. “She is a fantastic horse, she can do anything, and […]

As anticipated, Antipodean riders seized the chance to steal a march on their northern hemisphere colleagues in the 2011 FEI World Cup™ Eventing series by targeting the second leg, at Sydney’s Weekend of Equestrian World Cups (AUS). New Zealander Clarke Johnstone followed up his victory at Kihikihi (NZL) last month by travelling across the Tasman […]

Fellow World Games team members Jessica Phoenix and Rebecca Howard, finished in the top 10 at the rain soaked 2011 edition of the CCI 4* Rolex Kentucky Three Day Event, held April 28–May 1, at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, KY, USA. Phoenix, of Cannington, ON, sat in 30th place following dressage with a […]

The FEI, world governing body for equestrian sport, has today officially opened its new headquarters in Lausanne (SUI), the Olympic Capital. Almost 200 guests attended the ceremony at HM King Hussein I Building, which has been named after the FEI President’s late father HM King Hussein I of Jordan, a leader committed to peace and […]

Elite Canadian dressage competitor Karen Pavicic and her two new horses have returned from a successful season on the highly competitive West Coast CDI and US national dressage circuit. Pavicic of Richmond, BC, rode victory rounds from Northern to Southern California. Among her accomplishments were her rides with Don Daiquiri, the nine-year-old Oldenburg gelding sired […]

Kevin Staut, one of France’s most successful Jumping riders, has become the first athlete to be appointed to the FEI Executive Board. His appointment was ratified at today’s Extraordinary General Assembly at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne (SUI). Staut (31), who has held the number one spot in the Rolex Rankings for Jumping since July […]

FEI Solidarity, modelled on the hugely successful Olympic Solidarity programme, has been enshrined in the FEI constitution with the unanimous approval of National Federations attending today’s FEI Extraordinary General Assembly in the Olympic Museum in Lausanne (SUI). FEI Solidarity, which aims to organise assistance to the National Federations, in particular those which have the greatest […]

The FEI Bureau met today at the new FEI Headquarters, HM King Hussein I Building, in Lausanne (SUI). The summary of the main decisions taken at the meeting can be found here.