Ireland claimed team gold for the second year in a row while Great Britain’s Anna Wilks secured the Individual title at the FEI European Eventing Championships for Juniors 2014 at Bishop Burton College in East Yorkshire, Great Britain today. The venue is the only College in the United Kingdom to hold Centre of Vocational Excellence […]
Definite entries for the five disciplines of Dressage, Para-Dressage, Reining, Endurance and Eventing, which take place over the first week of competition at the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games™ 2014 in Normandy, have now been finalised. The number of entries is exceptionally high and breaks the previous participation records. Dressage, Endurance, and Reining have all […]
Equestrian sport will take to a new international stage as global broadcaster CNN International plans to feature hugely increased coverage of equestrian sport over the next three years. The FĂ©dĂ©ration Equestre Internationale (FEI), world governing body for equestrian sports, welcomes this increased coverage under the new CNN Equestrian banner, as part of its extensive international […]
Portuguese photographer Filipa Scarpa has won the top prize in the FEI Solidarity World Photo Grand Prix for her stunning image of the Lusitano stallion Xisto. The FEI Solidarity World Photo Grand Prix competition, aimed at uncovering photographic talent around the world in 2014, the Chinese Year of the Horse, was launched in May by […]
With just three days to go to the Opening Ceremony of the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, the FEI has launched a dedicated blog – youtholympics.fei.org – to report live from one of the world’s most exciting international sports competitions for young athletes. The FEI Youth Olympic Games blog will feature all the latest […]
The Danish Warmblood stallion Sezuan, ridden by Germany’s Dorothee Schneider, and the KWPN mare Dancer Forever, competed by The Netherlands’ Kirsten Brouwer, claimed the Five and Six-year-old titles at the FEI World Breeding Dressage Championships for Young Horses 2014 at Verden in Germany over the weekend. A pilot project when first staged at the German […]
All roads lead to Normandy in France where the much-anticipated 2014 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games™ begins in two weeks’ time. The seventh edition of the FEI’s flagship event is the biggest in its 24-year history, and with a massive increase in entries, and visitors already flying into northern France from all around the globe, […]
HRH Princess Haya has announced that she will not run for a third term as FEI president. HRH Princess Haya was elected as FEI president in 2006 in the first-ever contested election for the FEI presidency, and re-elected in 2010 in the first contested election involving a serving president. Following her election in 2006, Princess Haya […]
On a day of extraordinary sport, Team USA made it a spectacular three-in-a-row with victory at the eighth and last leg of the Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup™ Jumping 2014 Europe Division 1 series in Dublin, Ireland today. It was a roller-coaster ride from start to finish, with drama from the outset and intense pressure all […]
Michael James Bullman (GBR), well-known horse owner and chef d’Ă©quipe of the Great Britain and Hungary Jumping teams, has passed away at the age of 72 at his home in Hungary. Michael Bullman was a man who lived for his passion and, in his own words, was a “lover of horses first, and a horseman […]
