Canada’s Eric Lamaze scored his second major victory at the Spruce Meadows ‘Masters’ tournament, winning the $133,700 Suncor Energy Winning Round on Saturday, September 7, in Calgary, AB. Hot off their victory in the $133,700 1.60m CANA Cup on Thursday, September 5, Lamaze and Chacco Kid, a 13-year-old Oldenburg gelding (Chacco-Blue x Come On) owned […]
Friday evening’s 1.60m Tourmaline Oil Cup was contested by 28 horse and rider combinations in Spruce Meadows’ iconic International Ring, with a large majority struggling to master Venezuelan course designer, Leopoldo Palacios’s technical 16-fence challenge. Just six riders eventually went clear and progressed to the eight-obstacle jump-off, including Beezie Madden, Martin Fuchs, Mario Deslauriers, Max […]
It was another beautiful day at Spruce Meadows and Kent Farrington started things off with a win in the ATCO Solutions (1.50m). Fifty-nine horse/rider combinations took on the 425m track designed by FEI course designer Leopoldo Palacios (VEN) hoping to produce a clear round and qualify for the jump off. Twenty-three fault free rounds qualified […]
Eric Lamaze, riding Chacco Kid, won the $133,700 1.60m CANA Cup on Thursday, September 5, at the CSIO5* Spruce Meadows ‘Masters’ tournament in Calgary, AB. Coming into the Spruce Meadows ‘Masters’ tournament, running through Sunday, September 8, Lamaze had amassed over $6 million in career winnings at the iconic Canadian show jumping venue. In the […]
Mother Nature brought clear skies and sunshine to opening day of the 2019 Spruce Meadows ‘Masters’ CSIO5* Tournament. The TELUS Cup was the first FEI competition of the day and 67 horse/rider combinations took to the International Ring hoping to make it into the winner’s circle. The TELUS Cup is a qualifying competition for both […]
On Sept. 4th at the Spruce Meadows Masters, 51-year-old Olympic champion Eric Lamaze expressed his opinions about the changes to the Olympic show jumping team format in 2020. “It’s the worst thing that could have happened to our sport,” he said in a CBC interview. “The Olympics are the biggest thing we have in our […]
This month, international show jumping fans from around the world will turn their attention to the third Major in the Rolex Grand Slam of Show Jumping, the CP ‘International’, presented by Rolex at the CSIO Spruce Meadows ‘Masters’. Taking place between September 4-8, 2019, the Rocky Mountains of Calgary once again play host to the […]
Three deserving new inductees will be celebrated at the 12th annual Jump Canada Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony and Gala, presented by BMO Financial Group, on Sunday, November 3, 2019, at the Liberty Grand in Toronto, ON. The Jump Canada Hall of Fame was created in 2006 to recognize outstanding contributions to Canadian hunter/jumper sport. […]
Bronte Gray-Rochon of Toronto, Canada, rode Williamstown Guidam to the win in the $25,000 Show Jumping Hall of Fame Show Jumping Derby Sunday morning at the Hampton Classic, on the final day of competition of this year’s horse show. The class was open to Amateur-Owner and Junior riders who had competed in the Welcome Stake […]
Scoring for the new Olympic jumping format in Tokyo is to change after the three-rider/no drop-score team test confused spectators and suggested it was even vulnerable to “manipulation.” But the proposed amendments have not placated top riders. London 2012 champion Steve Guerdat said the inevitable “mess” at next year’s Games would be squarely down to […]
