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Tough Tapner Takes the Cross Country Lead at Badminton

Paul Tapner (AUS) is on course to win his second Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials (GBR), fourth leg of the FEI Classics™ 2013/2014, after a dramatic day of Cross Country action. The 38-year-old Australian, second after Dressage on the mud-loving Irish gelding Kilronan, tackled the track early in the day and looked beatable when he […]
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Canadians Make It Two-in-a-Row in Tussle with U.S. in Coapexpan

Canada clinched their second victory in a row in the Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup™ Jumping 2014 series after a thrilling head-to-head with the U.S. at Coapexpan, Mexico. Just four teams lined out in the second of the three qualifiers in the North America, Central America and Caribbean League, and the Canadians won through in a […]
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Clark Montgomery Nails Dressage Lead at Badminton

Stylish American rider Clark Montgomery thrilled the capacity crowd at the Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials (GBR), fourth leg of the FEI Classics™ 2013/2014, when he deservedly took the lead. His dressage test was a model of balance, consistency and harmony despite the wind that has battered the Gloucestershire site all day. Montgomery, 32, was […]
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Fighting Finns Snatch Furusiyya Victory on Dramatic Day at Linz

In a competition filled with drama, Finland snatched the honours at the opening leg of the Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup™ Jumping Europe Division 2 series at Linz in Austria. Drawn neck-and-neck at the halfway stage of the competition, and still battling it out going into the closing stages, it seemed that either the host nation […]
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Paul Tapner is on Track at Badminton

A trio of brilliant Dressage tests lit up a wet and blustery afternoon at the Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials (GBR), fourth leg of the FEI Classics™ 2013/2014. Two Australians, Paul Tapner and Lucinda Fredericks, both former Badminton winners, flank Britain’s Francis Whittington as the only riders to break the 40-penalty barrier after the first […]
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FEI Launches Photo Grand Prix to Uncover New Photography Talent

The FEI Solidarity World Photo Grand Prix, a competition aimed at uncovering new photographic talent around the world in 2014, the Chinese Year of the Horse, has been launched by the Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI). The joint initiative with Action Images/Thomson Reuters encourages amateur and professional photographers to submit images that capture an aspect of […]
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Brits Rule the Rankings

British break records with world number one slots in all three Olympic disciplines. British riders have broken all-time records, occupying the world number one slots in all three Olympic equestrian disciplines. This is the first time that athletes from one nation have simultaneously topped the FEI World Rankings in Jumping, Dressage, and Eventing. In the […]
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Swiss Sweep Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup™ Jumping: Round 3

The Swiss team of Pius Schwizer, Romain Duguet, Paul Estermann and Steve Guerdat swept to victory at the opening leg of the Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup™ Jumping Europe Division 1 league in Lummen, Belgium. The defending champions from France very nearly pushed them to a third-round jump-off against the clock, but a last-to-go error from […]
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William Fox-Pitt is Back on Top

William Fox-Pitt (GBR), multiple Olympic, World and European medallist, and the first British rider to lead the FEI World Eventing Rankings in 2002, is back as world number one. Fox-Pitt, who also led the world rankings in 2009 and 2010, has a 16-point lead over Andrew Nicholson (NZL), who had led the world Eventing rankings […]
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Let the Bidding Begin: Who Will Host Upcoming Major FEI Events

Bid teams from 11 cities in Asia, Canada, Europe and the United States have presented their final bid books to the FEI Evaluation Commission at FEI headquarters in Lausanne (SUI) targeting the FEI’s major events. Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup™ Final 2015 Barcelona (ESP), which staged the inaugural Final for the global team Jumping series, the […]