The FEI has today published the list of nominated entries for the London 2012 Paralympic Games. The list is now available on the FEI website here. The list details the athletes and horses that have achieved the minimum eligibility standards required for London 2012, and qualified National Federations will make their final selection of teams […]
Russian rider Maksim Vakin, 32, riding the 11-year-old Harley Davidson, led from the start to win at Minsk (BLR), the second leg of the FEI World Cup™ Eventing 2012. Vakin now moves into second place in the series standings behind Germany’s Sandra Auffarth, winner of the inaugural competition at Strzegom (POL). Last year’s winner Alena […]
Michael Jung (GER), riding Leopin FST, added yet another accolade to his glittering career when he won the CCI4* at Luhmühlen (GER), the penultimate leg of the HSBC FEI Classics™, much to the delight of a loudly cheering home crowd. Earlier in the day he had won the German national title with Weidezaunprofi’s River of […]
Lucinda Fredericks (AUS) produced a brilliant Dressage test on Flying Finish, a newcomer at CCI4* level, to head the field of 44 after the first day at Luhmühlen (GER), penultimate leg of the HSBC FEI Classics™. The Ground Jury of Jennie Loriston-Clarke (GBR), Christina Klingspor (SWE) and Christoph Hess (GER) awarded her the excellent score […]
The FEI Bureau’s spring meeting took place at FEI Headquarters in Lausanne (SUI) on June 8-9. The meeting opened with a minute’s silence for Dr. Craig Ferrell, FEI Medical Committee Chair, and Jane Goldsmith, Member of the FEI Para-Dressage Committee, who passed away recently. The main focus of the meeting was: • to agree on proposed […]
“The road to recovery from an Acquired Brain Injury is a lifetime of small steps. I am luckier than most as I have a horse to carry me on this journey.” So wrote Meg Wade in her acceptance speech for the FEI Against All Odds Award 2011, which she was unable to accept in person […]
The HSBC FEI Classics™ will be LIVE on FEI TV, the FEI’s official video platform, this weekend as follows: June 16th – Cross Country from 13.20 CEST June 17th – Jumping from 13.25 CEST
The FEI has announced that five countries are confirmed as bidders to stage the FEI World Equestrian Games™ in 2018. The five bid cities that have now taken on Official Candidate status are: Bromont (CAN) Budapest (HUN) Rabat (MAR) Vienna (AUT) Wellington (USA) Under the new bidding process put in place last year by the […]
Jane Goldsmith, a member of the FEI Para-Equestrian Committee and one of the pioneers of Para-Dressage in Great Britain, passed away peacefully on June 2nd after a long illness. Jane was born into a non-horsey family, but during her school years, she worked at a local riding school at weekends and in the evenings in return […]
Germany is proving the nation to beat this year, after European silver medallist Sandra Auffarth opened the 2012 FEI World Cup™ Eventing with a convincing victory at Strzegom (POL) at the weekend and led her team to a second win in the FEI Nations’ Cup™ Eventing series. Germany, which won the inaugural competition at Fontainebleau […]
