East Dorset, Vermont — The Vermont Summer Festival Horse Show, held from July 7 to August 15 in East Dorset, VT, was recently selected by the American Hunter Jumper Federation (AHJF) to host a World Championship Hunter Rider Event (WCHR) during the third week of competition. The World Championship Hunter Rider Event will be held […]

Ottawa, ON—The Equine Canada Canadian Reining Committee (CRC) is pleased to announce the declared riders aiming for a spot on the Canadian Reining Team for the 2010 FEI World Equestrian Games to be held in Lexington, KY September 25—October 10, 2010.  The declared riders in alphabetical order are Rider – Home Town                                     Lisa Coulter – Kelowna, […]

Ottawa, ON – The Dressage Canada European Tour Selection Committee is pleased to announce that the following rider/horse combinations have been selected to participate in the European Tour: Ashley Holzer and Pop Art, Belinda Trussell and Anton, Wendy Christoff and Pfalstaff, Shannon Dueck and Ayscha and Bonnie Bonnello and Pikardi. Toronto native and three-time Canadian Olympian […]

The first day of the Global Champions Tour of Germany opened in rather damp fashion but the jumping was exciting enough to brighten an otherwise grey day. The Mercedes Benz Championship of Hamburg was won last year by Meredith Michaels Beerbaum after a tough jump off though it appeared for quite some time as though […]

La Baule, France – Olympic Champion Eric Lamaze of Schomberg, ON, and Hickstead claimed victory in the €20,000 1.50m competition held on opening day of CSIO5* La Baule, France, running May 13 to 16. A total of 72 horses contested the €20,000 1.50m Prix du Conseil General de Loire Atlantique with Lamaze and his Olympic […]

The Chefs all agree, tHis is going to be the toughest season ever… The Polish team, complete newcomers to the top-level of nations cup jumping, are drawn first to go in the 2010 Meydan FEI Nations Cup™ series which kicks off at La Baule in France tomorrow afternoon. And with four of the 10 competing countries […]

Langley, BC – Thunderbird Show Park will get the 2010 show jumping season underway next week as construction begins on a new spectator area overlooking the Grand Prix field. Under the federal Marquee Tourism Events Program (MTEP), a Canadian tourism grant of $264,350 has been awarded to the Park to assist them in further development of […]

Tim Grubb, who represented Britain on their Olympic Show Jumping team on three occasions and rode in over 75 Nations’ Cups, died of congestive heart failure in Illinois on May 11th at the age of 55. The friendly and popular rider was born in Leicestershire, and his riding history ran the gamut from Pony Club […]

The new Annex (XIII) created by the Working Group that produced a revised FEI Stewards Manual on warm-up techniques for Dressage has now been completed, following the production of three diagrams to illustrate permitted positions of the horse’s head and neck during pre- and post-competition training. One of the key stipulations in the Working Group’s […]

British-based riders have their first chance to earn points in the valuable HSBC FEI World Cup™ Eventing series at Chatsworth (GBR) this weekend (May 15-16), and five nations are represented in the entry of 33.   Paul Tapner (AUS), fresh from his thrilling Badminton success, is two-handed with Kilfinnie ll and Tiger Flynne, and is […]