Despite the disqualification of Tiffany Foster, the Canadian Olympic Team for Show Jumping is currently ranked in sixth position following competition on Sunday, August 5, at the London Olympic Games. Canada will compete in the team final at the Olympic equestrian venue of Greenwich Park on Monday, August 6. With Foster’s disqualification on Sunday under […]
The first Jumping competition of the London 2012 Olympic Games at Greenwich Park threw up some big surprises today. Olympic course designer Bob Ellis’ track was expected to be a relatively gentle introduction for the Jumping riders, but two of the biggest stars of the game were amongst four to be eliminated. A total of […]
Bit of a slow week for the news, wouldn’t you say? After all the Colbert kerfuffle over giving dressage some free, if not entirely wanted, publicity, and the flurry of Olympic team announcements (yes, even Canada jumped on that wagon as it was just about to pull out of the barnyard), we have been treated […]
The Ukraine galloped to the top of the FEI Nations Cup™ European Promotional League 2012 leaderboard following victory at the fifth leg in Drammen, Norway on Saturday June 23rd. Denmark had been out in front following the previous round on home turf in Copenhagen last month, but an impressive performance at the Norwegian fixture from […]
Dalma Rushi Malhas, the Saudi Arabian rider who won individual bronze at the inaugural Youth Olympic Games in 2010, will not be competing at London 2012, the FEI confirmed today. The 20-year-old had been aiming to achieve the minimum eligibility standard required for the Olympic Games by the June 17th deadline, but her horse was […]
Gawl danged Europeen varmints! According to an article in the Saudi Gazette over the weekend, Abdullah Sharbatly, one of the two Saudi show jumpers who received bute-related suspensions and an invitation to skip the Olympics, has declared that he suspects foul play in the positive tests of his horse and that of Khaled Al-Eid. Sharbatly even went […]
I’ve always hated Wednesday, even though it has the cutest nickname of all the days of the week. I know ‘hump day’ is meant to say, ‘Hey! We’re half way there!’ But to me it has always meant ‘we’re only half way there.’ My aversion to Wednesday hasn’t made sense for years because I work […]
Twenty one nations are celebrating their Olympic qualification January 9th, which marks the 200-day countdown to London 2012 and 100 years of equestrian sport in the Olympic movement. Eleven countries have now secured the opportunity to join the nine nations already qualified at the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games™ 2010 in Kentucky and hosts […]
Khaled Al Eid (KSA) concluded the 2011 Spruce Meadows Champions “Welcome” Tournament with an impressive double clear performance riding Presley Boy to victory in the Friends of the Meadows World Cup Grand Prix. The victory in the final events of the Spruce Meadows “Masters” preview tournament was the first ever for the Kingdom of Saudi […]
The Swiss, relegated from the Top League in 2010 but clearly on form when making a guest appearance in the FEI Nations Cup™ on their home ground at St Gallen last week, are heading the 2011 European Promotional League table after the first three legs of the series and look set for an early return […]
