Winnipeg, MB – The 17th annual Birds Hill International Combined Driving Event (CDE) took place on July 17th and 18th. Despite the Event’s extensive history, this year was one of several firsts for the Birds Hill CDE. For the first time, a very small equine (VSE) competed. Jenny Hamill (13) of Stony Mountain, MB drove her […]
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The thirty horses that are to compete in the inaugural Youth Olympic Games in August came out of their two-week post-arrival quarantine in Singapore today. For the first time in Olympic history, a ballot will be organised to pair the horses with the 30 young riders competing in the individual and team Jumping events […]
Ottawa, ON – The Endurance Canada International Committee is pleased to announce the squad and alternates who will represent Canada at the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games (WEG) to be held in Lexington, KY September 25–October 10, 2010. Endurance Canada WEG Squad Rider – Home Town – Horse Elroy Karius – Kelowna, BC – […]
Ottawa, ON – The Alberta Reining Team won the gold medal on July 29 at the 2010 Adequan FEI North American Junior Young Rider Championships. Presented by Gotham North, these Championships are being held July 28–August 1 at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, KY, also the site of the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian […]
Ottawa, ON – The British Columbia Junior Dressage Team won the gold medal in the FEI Junior Team Competition on July 28 at the 2010 North American Junior and Young Rider Championships, which is being held at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, KY July 28 – August 1st, 2010. The Gold Medal Team, comprised of […]
Ottawa, ON – Canadian Eventing Committee is pleased to announce the teams that will represent Canada at the 2010 Adequan FEI North American Junior and Young Riders Championships. Presented by Gotham North, these Championships will be held July 28-August 1, 2010 at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, KY, which is also the site of […]
Ottawa, ON – Over the past two weeks, Canadian Olympian Evi Strasser of Sainte-Adele, QC, has earned two WEG-qualifying scores with her Oldenburg gelding Quantum Tyme (by Quattro). Strasser and Quantum Tyme placed fifth in the Grand Prix at CDI3* Hartpury, held July 14-18, 2010 in the United Kingdom, earning 67.404% from the panel of five […]
The pressure is intense ahead of this Friday’s seventh leg of the 2010 Meydan FEI Nations Cup™ series in Hickstead. The Sussex venue has staged the British Nations Cup since taking on the mantle of the Royal International Horse Show in 1992, but the atmosphere is expected to be more highly-charged than ever before as […]
American actor and director Robert Duvall has given his support to the annual awards organised by the Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI), the governing body of horse sport. The FEI launched the “Oscars of the equestrian world” last year to reward outstanding dedication to horse sport in five categories. Calls for nominations for the 2010 awards […]
Riders from the U.S. and Eastern Europe have rocketed up the HSBC FEI World Cup™ rankings following competitions at Kalispell (USA) and Minsk (BLR) this weekend. Karen O’Connor (USA) shoots into equal 10th place with just three events to go after a convincing victory at Rebecca Farm in Kalispell, Montana. Her mount, Mandiba, travelled to […]