The Central Region Final of the 2011 Jump Canada Young Horse Series will be held at the Autumn Classic, running September 15 to 18 at the Caledon Equestrian Park in Palgrave, ON.   The change in venue is a result of the cancellation of the three-week Canadian Country Classic Horse Show, originally scheduled from August […]

Jump Canada Young Horse Series Niko Goyette won the Five-Year-Old Division. Niko only rider to finish the first round of competition fault-free,

With summer in full blossom across the Delaware Valley, preparations move into high speed for the annual International Dressage at Devon (DAD) Horse Show  (http://www.dressageatdevon.org/), a premier North American equestrian event, hosting top Olympic equestrians, more than 700 horses and 35,000 spectators annually.  The show combines world-class dressage competition and the world’s largest open breed […]

The American team have the unenviable task of of being first into the ring when the FEI Nations Cup™ 2011 resumes at Falsterbo, Sweden tomorrow afternoon.  The draw took place this evening, and the order of go for the competition which begins at 14.30 local time is as follows: 1. USA; 2. Belgium; 3. The […]

Great Britain’s Piggy French held firm to scoop the honours in the Greenwich Park Eventing Invitational (CIC**) today with a fabulous double-clear jumping performance from DHI Topper W. Germany’s Michael Jung (River of Joy) finished second ahead of Britain’s Pippa Funnell (Billy Shannon) in third, but all the athletes were in agreement that the real […]

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 […]