There were happy scenes at the Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials (GBR), fourth leg of the FEI Classics™ 2015/2016, as a sell-out crowd watched the phenomenal Michael Jung (GER) La Biosthetique Sam FBW make history. He is the first German to win the 67-year-old event and, in the process, has become only the second winner […]
For the second time in a week, Michael Jung (GER) showed exactly why he is world number one, producing an outstanding display of sympathetic horsemanship to retain his lead after the Cross Country phase at the Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials (GBR), fourth leg of the FEI Classics™ 2015/2016. He has a wonderfully trusting partnership […]
Poland pinned Ukraine into runner-up spot in a cliff-hanger of a competition at the fourth leg of the Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup™ Jumping 2016 series in Linz (AUT) today. The swings of fortune in this team sport are the stuff of legend, and as so often happens the result rested on the shoulders on the […]
Emily King (GBR), the youngest rider at the Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials (GBR), fourth leg of the FEI Classics™ 2015/2016, produced the performance of the day and is in second place behind first-day leaders Michael Jung (GER) and La Biosthetique Sam FBW at the end of the Dressage phase. King scored 36.8 in a […]
No German rider has won the Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials (GBR), fourth leg of the FEI Classics™ 2015/2016, in its 67-year history, but two of them are currently heading the leaderboard after the first day of Dressage and few would bet against this being the year that history is made. Michael Jung (GER), who […]
Michael Jung of Germany attacked the cross-country course at the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event, presented by Land Rover, as if it weren’t raining and the ground wasn’t muddy. The result was that Fischerrocana FST finished the fastest of the 63 horses that started the course. The combination of Jung’s winning dressage ride and the fast cross-country […]
There were huge celebrations when Team Mexico broke a 26-year Nations Cup drought to win the third leg of the Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup™ Jumping 2016 series on home ground at the Coapexpan Equestrian Club in Xalapa (MEX). In a very close contest, and with a gutsy and impressive performance that included two double-clear rounds, […]
Michael Jung (GER) and his wonderful mare FischerRocana FST were in a class of their own at the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event (USA), third leg of the FEI Classics™ 2015/2016, where their flawless performance has put them at the head of the leaderboard after the Dressage phase. Last year’s winners have a 5.3 penalty lead […]
Daddy Stibbe, former member of the FEI Eventing Committee (1982-87), has passed away at home in Vught (NED). He was 93. Born in 1922, Daddy Stibbe was a fan of equestrian sport from a young age as he grew up in Amsterdam. He was one of the founding members of the famous Indoor Brabant and […]
The Brussels Court of Appeal has today denied the FEI appeal on the interim measures imposed by the Belgian Competition Authority which prevent the FEI from imposing its unsanctioned event rule on athletes and horses competing in the Global Champions League. “We are of course disappointed that the Brussels Court of Appeal has denied the […]
