The Canadian Horse Defence Coalition (CHDC) has learned that Bouvry Exports horse slaughter plant in Fort MacLeod, Alberta closed operations on December 3rd to complete renovations related to sanitation. This news is not surpising. It is well documented that horse slaughter operations in Canada and the U.S. have a long history of pollution troubles and […]
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On October 19th, Bromont’s Mayor, Pauline Quinlan, hand delivered a letter addressed to FEI Secretary General Alexander McLin, in Lausanne Switzerland. The letter expressed the city’s interest in hosting the 2018 WEG and requested that the FEI convey to the city the requirements and specifications related to such an endeavour. It would not be the […]
Voting is now underway for the 2011 Equine Canada Director-at-Large election. Members of Equine Canada are eligible to vote for the Director-at-Large position provided that individual is 18 years-of-age or older in the year of election. Voting may be completed in one of two ways. Members must visit the Equine Canada website at http://www.equinecanada.ca/ and […]
Isabell Werth, a double-winner so far this season, holds a slender lead as the 2010/2011 Reem Acra FEI World Cup™ Dressage Western European League series moves to the hugely popular Christmas Show at Olympia in London next week. However Werth’s decision to skip the British fixture and to aim instead for the following leg on […]
Jaimie Holland will represent Canada at the sixth annual 2010 FEI Young Rider World Cup Finals, which will be held at the CDI-W Frankfurt in Germany on December 15-19, 2010. Holland, 21, of Caledon, ON, was identified by the FEI as the Canadian representative for the World Cup based on her 2010 results at FEI […]
The Canadian Reining Committee (CRC) is pleased to announce that Gary Yaghdjian is the new chair of the committee. Yaghdjian replaces Bob Thompson, who was been the chair of the CRC since its inception in March 2009. Yaghdjian has been involved in reining since 1979. He has competed in North America and Europe, was a […]
Tuesday evening November 30, Exquis World Dressage Masters Management received an email from Equestrian Sport Productions’s president Michael Stone stating that ESP had decided to cancel the WDM Palm Beach 2011 (February 3-5). “We were very surprised by this news,” Anthony M. Kies, CEO of WDM management says. “First of all because WDM has a […]
Adriana Zerafa, 21, a Prix St. Georges level dressage rider and her mother, Paola Lugari-Zerafa, paid $60,000 to have seven horses brought from France to Canada. The importer she hired arranged travel and applied for the necessary permits. For reasons unknown to her, the importer brought two of the horses, stallions, into Canada on temporary […]
Legendary horseman Eugene “Gene” Mische, the founder of Stadium Jumping, Inc., passed away on Friday evening, following a long, hard fought battle with cancer. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, on June 26, 1931, Mische, more than any horseman in history, changed the face of horse sports in the United States. He was 79 years old. Mische […]
What nobody expected in Hungary’s capital city happened today: Switzerland’s Werner Ulrich stayed ahead of top favourite Boyd Exell from Australia and won the FEI World Cup™ Driving competition in Budapest. Exell made two mistakes and came second, ahead of Ulrich’s compatriot Daniel Würgler. This was the second FEI World Cup™ Driving win in Ulrich’s […]
