The first competition of the FEI Classics™ 2013/2014 season has been billed as a “battle of the giants” between Andrew Nicholson (NZL) and William Fox-Pitt (GBR), ranked first and second in the HSBC Rider Rankings, but Australia’s Lucinda Fredericks has swept ahead of the pair of them after the Dressage phase at Les Etoiles de […]
The British Equestrian Federation (BEF) has confirmed to the FEI that it is withdrawing from the bid process for the FEI World Equestrian Games™ 2018 and will not now be putting in a formal bid. The FEI had received four formal Expressions of Interest by the 30 September deadline, one from Britain, two from the […]
Francis Michielsen, a former member of the FEI Jumping Committee and one of the most respected international Jumping judges, passed away peacefully in hospital on 24 October after suffering a brain haemorrhage. He was 72. Born on 7 August 1941, Francis Michielsen started judging at national level in Belgium in 1967 and became an FEI […]
French rider, Thomas Carlile, made history yesterday when clinching both the 6 and 7-Year-Old titles at the FEI World Breeding Eventing Championships for Young Horses on home turf at Mondial du Lion. This important annual fixture, which brings together many of the most talented and promising young horses in the sport, was abandoned 12 months […]
Danish rider, Anna Kasprzak, secured her first-ever Reem Acra FEI World Cup™ Dressage Freestyle victory on home ground at Odense in Denmark today where the 2013/2014 Western European League got underway. Already strongly tipped for a top placing following their convincing win in yesterday’s Grand Prix in which they pipped Germany’s Isabell Werth and Don […]
Patrice Delaveau produced a stunning victory with Orient Express HDC at the second leg of the Longines FEI World Cup™ Jumping Western European League 2013/2014 series in Helsinki, Finland this afternoon. Second-last to go in the eight-horse jump-off against the clock, the French partnership snatched victory from London 2012 Olympic champions Steve Guerdat and Nino […]
FEI Secretary General Ingmar De Vos has reacted to Endurance Committee member Pierre Arnould’s public statement on Endurance. “I do not accept the statement made public by Pierre Arnould, a member of the FEI Endurance Committee, for a number of reasons: • Mr Arnould has made unsubstantiated allegations about the sport and, in so doing, […]
Great Britain has won the 2013 FEI Nations Cup™ Eventing by just one point after an epic battle with last year’s champions, Germany. The series went right to the wire at the final event, Boekelo (NED), at which Germany scored an emphatic team victory, but the British have run a well-orchestrated campaign with a pool […]
Great Britain’s Scott Brash once again proved himself to be the most formidable of opponents when galloping to victory with Hello Sanctos in the opening leg of the Longines FEI World Cup™ Jumping 2013/2014 Western European League at Oslo, Norway this afternoon. Others might have been rattled by the last-minute drama of a broken noseband […]
The FEI Endurance Strategic Planning Group (ESPG) held its second meeting this week as part of the ongoing process of strategic planning to meet the needs of the FEI’s second biggest discipline. The Group, which is chaired by Andrew Finding (GBR), spent a full day working on the development of a proposed strategic plan for […]
