FEI Nations Cup™ Jumping goes global next week, when the inaugural leg of the new series running under the Furusiyya banner takes place at Al Ain, Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates on Thursday, February 21, 2013. This is a pivotal moment for the sport which was described by FEI President, HRH Princess Haya, […]
Robyn Walker, 15, of Calgary, AB, was a member of the gold medal winning team and finished in eighth place individually at the 2012 FEI Children’s International Classics Final held in Valle de Bravo, MEX, January 30-February 3, 2013. Riding a borrowed horse for the entire competition named Golondrina, a 12-year-old dark bay mare, Walker, […]
The town of Valle de Bravo, located on the shore of Lake Avándaro and over 150km southwest of Mexico City, played host to the FEI Children’s International Classics Final last week (February 3rd). A total of 32 young athletes from 14 nations battled it out at the Rancho Avándaro Country Club, where Mexico’s Juan Pablo […]
Christian Ahlmann (GER), the 2003 double European gold medallist, has held onto the world number one spot in the FEI World Rider Rankings for Jumping – now called the Longines Rankings. The 38-year-old German jumped into the top spot in December 2012, and a run of successes in January has kept him out in front […]
Eventing moved a step nearer to achieving an international vision for the sport when National Safety Officers (NSOs) from 22 nations were able to pool ideas and experiences at their sixth annual Risk Management Seminar, which was hosted by the Italian Equestrian Federation in Rome on January 26-27 . The NSOs were shown a DVD highlighting […]
Stephen Clarke, the British judge who acted as President of the Ground Jury at the London 2012 Olympic Games, has been unanimously elected as FEI Dressage Judge General. He was elected to the post by the 5* Judges present at the annual FEI 5* Dressage Judges seminar, which was held in Paris January 20-22 . Clarke […]
Germany’s Christian Ahlmann showed exactly why he holds No. 1 position on the Jumping World Rankings when trouncing the opposition in the ninth leg of the Rolex FEI World Cup™ Jumping Western European League series at Leipzig, Germany. In the ten-horse jump-off against the clock he was in a class of his own with the […]
Germany’s Helen Langehanenberg and Damon Hill NRW pipped defending double-champions Adelinde Cornelissen and Jerich Parzival at the sixth leg of the Reem Acra FEI World Cup™ Dressage Western European League in Amsterdam (NED) today. There were eight Dutch competitors amongst the start-list of 15, but Germany claimed two of the top-three placings when Isabell Werth […]
The Canadian bid team hoping to host the FEI World Equestrian Games™ in 2018, will present to the FEI Evaluation Commission next month as part of the bid process prior to a final decision on the host city in June. Canada has nominated Bromont, which staged the equestrian events for the 1976 Olympic Games, as […]
The FEI Bureau has withdrawn the hosting rights for the FEI World Cup™ Jumping and Dressage Finals in 2015 from Guadalajara (MEX). The organisers have been unable to meet in full the requirements imposed by the FEI Bureau when the Finals were allocated to Guadalajara at its meeting in June of last year. “The FEI […]
