General Om Prakash (OP) Malhotra, PVSM (Retd), former President of the Equestrian Federation of India (EFI), a founding member and former President of the Asian Equestrian Federation (AEF) and former Chief of Army Staff, Indian Army has passed away at his home in Gurgaon. He was 93. General Malhotra was President of the Equestrian Federation […]
Venezuelan Jumping athlete Andres Rodriguez, individual silver medallist at the 2015 Pan-American Games, has died in hospital of injuries sustained in a car crash in Wellington, Florida (USA) on 4 January. He was 31. A passenger in the car, Sophie Walker (30), died at the scene of the crash. Ms Walker was a talented amateur […]
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has dismissed the appeal by Irish athlete Cian O’Connor and Horse Sport Ireland and upheld the decision rendered by the FEI Appeal Committee following an on-course incident at the FEI European Jumping Championships in Aachen (GER) on August 21st 2015. “I am happy that the CAS has confirmed […]
After a thrilling competition on the last evening of the 35th edition of Jumping Mechelen (BEL), Boyd Exell (AUS) claimed his fourth FEI World Cup™ Driving victory of this season. The enthusiastic spectators witnessed a fantastic neck-to-neck competition with runner-up spot going to Koos de Ronde (NED), while Georg von Stein (GER) finished third and […]
Germany’s Christian Ahlmann galloped to his third victory of the season at the eighth leg of the Longines FEI World Cup™ Jumping 2015/2016 Western European League at Mechelen in Belgium today. The competition came down to a 10-way decider against the clock, and, third-last into the arena, the 40-year-old rider and his brilliant 15-year-old stallion […]
Germany’s Jannis Drewell produced his second successive win of the FEI World Cup™ Vaulting 2015/2016 series at the Christmas Show in Mechelen, Belgium where Switzerland’s Simone Jäiser topped the Female Individual podium and Germany’s Torben Jacobs and Pia Engelberty scooped the Pas-de-Deux honours. The hugely popular Belgian event presented the fourth of this season’s five […]
FEI Secretary General Sabrina Ibáñez has voiced her full support for the actions of FEI Officials at London Olympia on Monday night (December 21) when Irish rider Bertram Allen was disqualified after blood was found on the flank of his horse, Quiet Easy. “I have absolutely no doubt that the protocols regarding blood on the […]
The Christmas show at the Grand Hall in Olympia is always something special, and the seventh leg of the Longines FEI World Cup™ Jumping 2015/2016 Western European League more than lived up to expectations when Italy’s Emanuele Gaudiano produced a sensational victory at the London (GBR) venue. In a 17-way jump-off, the 29-year-old rider and […]
The Netherlands’ IJsbrand Chardon tonight succeeded in doing what all the drivers in the FEI World Cup™ Driving series are aiming to do. The four-time World Champion pipped the so-far-unbeatable Boyd Exell from Australia with two fast and faultless rounds in the electric atmosphere of the Grand Hall at Olympia in London (GBR). Exell, who […]
Carl Hester pipped his super-star protégé, fellow-Olympian and world no. 1 rider Charlotte Dujardin for victory in tonight’s spell-binding sixth leg of the Reem Acra FEI World Cup™ Dressage 2015/2016 Western European League at Olympia in London (GBR). Riding Nip Tuck, the 11-year-old gelding with which he helped clinch team silver at this summer’s FEI […]
