Calgary, AB – What can’t two-time Olympic Gold medalist American Beezie Madden do?  A year after a spectacular crash on her mare Prima, the pair returned to the Spruce Meadows International Ring for the TransCanada Parcours de Chasse. The course featured 17 jumping efforts including the south bank.  In a Parcours de Chasse, faults are […]

Kamal Bahamdan, who is a business man with only two horses, won the opening speed class at Cannes with his good mare Pinochetta. The pair also scored in a similar class at Valencia last year but Kamal was still thrilled to win. Based in Holland he trains with GCT President and Founder Jan Tops so […]

Calgary, AB – The second night of the Spruce Meadows “National” Tournament was just as good as the first for Canada’s Eric Lamaze.  Even in the rain the Olympic champ shone with his mare Take Off. The course for the Prairie Mines & Royalty Cup was 490 metres in length with 15 jumping efforts and a […]

CBC and Spruce Meadows today announced a two-year broadcast agreement, continuing a long tradition of partnership and ensuring that Canadians continue to see the best in world-class show jumping on CBC. “Spruce Meadows’ is a Canadian jewel and the tournaments held there attract Olympic, World, European, and National Show Jumping Champions,” said Scott Moore, executive […]

The nice thing about dressage riders is that they take care of their horses themselves after the show. Before asking about Isabell Werth’s impressions of the Massa Stud Grand Prix, one had to wait until Warum Nicht had taken his shower and Isabel had borrowed an apple from her German colleague Anja Plönzke, who herself […]

Calgary, AB – The conditions weren’t perfect for first day competitions in the Spruce Meadows International Ring but a little rain never stopped Canadian Eric Lamaze.  With the Enbridge Cup on the line the Olympic Champion proved he has what it takes, rain or shine. FEI course designer, Werner Deeg (GER), put together a track that […]

The FEI has recently published the updated world rankings, allowing an accurate estimate of the quality of the 29th Jumping de Cannes edition. This year’s event remains at the highest level as is the tradition: seven out of the world’s top ten will start today. This event will provide German Marcus Ehning (current n° 2 […]

Ottawa, ON — Toronto native Victoria Winter and Proton won the Grand Prix Special held at Cornerstone Farm’s CDI3* Spring Into Dressage held this past weekend in Palgrave, ON, June 4-6, 2010. The Cornerstone Farms’ Spring into Dressage Show is one of the largest Gold shows in Canada. This year, in order to meet the […]

Swedish Jumping rider Lisen Bratt Fredricson has been named as the Equestrian sport Athlete Role Model (ARM) for the inaugural Youth Olympic Games in Singapore this summer. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) this week announced a list of 46 ARMs for the Games, which run from 14 to 26 August. “I am really honoured to […]

Langley, B.C. – The second event in the western division of the 2010 Jump Canada Young Horse Series took place during the Thunderbird Show Park Canadian Premiere held May 26 to 30 in Langley, BC. Winning the Seven and Eight-Year-Old Division was 1984 Canadian Olympian Liz Ashton on Vibrance, her eight-year-old chestnut Dutch Warmblood gelding. […]