The FEI has launched its first ever official video channel on YouTube www.youtube.com/feichannel as part of SportAccord’s The Sports Hub. This unique internet destination and comprehensive multi-sport platform provides a single access point for a whole range of sports and multi-sport events.   The Sports Hub includes a series of independently operated sub-channels categorised by […]

Calgary, Alberta – Rocky Mountain Show Jumping opened its summer season by hosting back-to-back show jumping tournaments at Anderson Ranch in Calgary, AB. Hayley Alfonso of St. Andrews, MB, was victorious on May 15 in the $15,000 Cymric Brae Grand Prix while New Zealand’s Katie McVean emerged victorious in the $25,000 ‘Gail Turns 50’ Grand […]

FEI President HRH Princess Haya has called for a more rational risk-based approach to international trade requirements for the transportation of competition horses. Speaking to some of the world’s top animal health government officials at the 78th World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) General Assembly in Paris on Sunday 23 May, the FEI President acknowledged […]

Course designer Uliano Vezzani has been responsible for some masterly examples of his craft at other GCT shows in the past but in today’s class, the Premio Banca SAI, his course was rather too forgiving. There is plenty of room in the spacious outdoor sand arena at La Mandria’s International Equestrian Centre to be as […]

The national park of La Mandria, Turin was the spectacular backdrop as the GCT of Italy. The competition began with a 1.45m two phase competition with course designer Uliano Vezzani making sure his star studded field did not have it too easy. First into the ring, and returning to the GCT after a short absence due to […]

Analysis of all urine and blood samples taken during Medication Control Programme Testing at the FEI World Cup™ Final in Geneva (13-19 April) has proved negative, but analysis on leg swab samples is still being carried out. No further information will be made available until that process has been completed.    

16,000 people watched as American rider Lauren Hough was last into the ring and ended up leading the women to a one, two, three finish in the Global Champions Tour Grand Prix of Germany. It is perhaps a bad sign for course builders when the first horse into the ring in a big class goes clear […]

British-based Australian Sam Griffiths kept his country at the forefront of the HSBC FEI World Cup™ Eventing rankings with a superb win at Chatsworth (GBR), his first ever victory in this series. This latest result means that Australian riders have won three out of the first five of the 12 events across three continents and […]

The home team and defending champions from France won the first leg of the 2010 Meydan FEI Nations Cup™ series at La Baule today, but victory came only at the very end of a nail-biting contest, with the USA chasing them all the way to line.  It was a good day for the British as […]

Jessica Kurten won this evening’s accumulator competition at the Global Champions Tour of Germany in Hamburg with a brilliant ride on Lady Georgina Forbes’, Castle Forbes Myrtille Paulois. The pair, who have had other good GCT form in  the recent past, including fifth in the Grand Prix of Monaco in 2009, scored the maximum 65 […]