The organising team at Les Etoiles des Pau (FRA), October 24-28, 2012, the first event in the HSBC FEI Classics™ 2012/2013 season, have described this year’s entry as “a dream” with members of the gold, silver and bronze medal-winning teams at the London 2012 Olympic Games heading to the popular CCI4* in the foothills of the […]
Dutch riders claimed the first two places in the opening leg of the Reem Acra FEI World Cup™ Dressage 2012/2013 series at Odense in Denmark today where defending champions, Adelinde Cornelissen and Jerich Parzival, scored a convincing victory. Edward Gal, series champion in 2010 with Totilas, lined up second with Blue Hors Romanov while Danish […]
Roger Yves Bost celebrated his 47th birthday in style when clinching maximum points in the second qualifying leg of the Rolex FEI World Cup™ Jumping Western European League at Helsinki, Finland today. Riding Castle Forbes Myrtille Paulois, the enigmatic Frenchman whose jumping technique often seems to defy the laws of gravity, produced another one of […]
Yves Rossier, Vice Chair of the FEI Veterinary Committee, delivered a presentation on equine injury surveillance at the annual International Olympic Sports Federations’ Medical Commission Chairpersons conference held at the IOC Headquarters in Lausanne (SUI) yesterday. The Canadian, who was head of the Olympic Veterinary Clinic in Greenwich Park at the London 2012 Olympic Games, […]
FEI Secretary General Ingmar De Vos has just returned from a two-day visit to the Chinese city of Chengdu, where he addressed the fourth Chinese Equestrian Development Forum last weekend. High on the list of topics for discussion at the Forum and at separate meetings between the Chinese Equestrian Association and the FEI were the […]
Double-Dutch champions Adelinde Cornelissen and her great gelding Parzival will head up a star-studded field for the opening leg of the Reem Acra FEI World Cup™ Dressage 2012/2013 series at Odense, Denmark next weekend. The collection of early points on the road to the series Final that will take place in Gothenburg, Sweden next April, […]
The German team produced yet another first-rate performance to win at Boekelo (NED), the final leg of the inaugural FEI Nations Cup™ Eventing, and rounded off what has been an outstanding year for the country’s senior riders with a comfortable victory in this new series. Germany’s talented squad, which included two members of the Olympic […]
The Netherlands’ Jeroen Dubbeldam won the thrilling opening leg of the Rolex FEI World Cup™ Jumping Western European League 2012/2013 series at Oslo, Norway partnered with BMC Utascha. The competition attracted a star-studded field that included three individual Olympic champions including the current title-holder, Switzerland’s Steve Guerdat. But it was the Dutchman, who claimed gold […]
George Lane Fox (GBR), founder of the Bramham International Horse Trials, died peacefully at home on October 9th. He was the ninth generation of his family to live at Bramham Park in Wetherby, West Yorkshire, where he started the Bramham International Horse Trials in 1973. The Bramham International Horse Trials have kick-started the careers of […]
Just a few days ahead of the opening of the Rolex FEI World Cup™ Jumping 2012/2013 Western European League series, horses are prepared, lorries are en route, and riders, owners, trainers and spectators are looking forward to another new beginning. The Telenor Arena in Oslo, Norway hosts the first leg of the new season next […]
