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 […]

The FEI has received formal Expressions of Interest from Great Britain, the US and Canada to host the FEI World Equestrian Games™ 2018, after re-opening the bidding process on July 1, 2013. The USA has identified two potential host cities – Wellington (Florida) and Lexington (Kentucky) – and Great Britain will have to confirm the […]

It was a clean sweep for Uruguay for the second year running at the FEI Pan-American Endurance Championships for Seniors, Young Riders & Juniors last weekend, when they took Team and Individual gold on home soil at the hippodrome in Trinidad, the capital city of Flores in southern Uruguay. Chile claimed bronze in the Senior […]

The FEI Bureau has approved changes to the FEI Equine Prohibited Substances List proposed by the FEI List Group. The new List will come into force on January 1, 2014. The changes are summarised here and below: • Two new Controlled Medication substances have been added to the List for 2014: Metformin, a potent but […]