A young Uruguayan endurance rider has been suspended for two years and fined 3,000 Swiss francs after her horse tested positive for a banned substance.

British eventer Matthew Wright has been fined $1,950 for falsifying horse passport information in a rare fraud case to come before the FEI Tribunal.

Oliver Townend has issued two belated public apologies, agreeing he ‘let people down’ after the horse abuse incidents at Badminton this weekend.

A jumping judge and the secretary-general of the Kyrgyzstan equestrian federation have each been suspended for two years by the FEI.

US eventer Marilyn Little has been dropped by two sponsors amid social media outrage over the latest blood-in-mouth incident involving her horses.

Banned anabolic steroid stanozolol is widely used in Italy, with jumpers relying on their vets to prevent any anti-doping violations, it has been alleged.

Sadly, the number of endurance horses officially listed as dead in the current UAE winter season has risen to ten today, February 23, 2018.

Five endurance horses loaned to foreign nationals for rides in the UAE this winter have failed dope tests, with half the 2017-2018 desert season still to go

Bernhard Maier, the Austrian jumper whose poor riding at the Vienna Neustadt CSI in June caused a social media storm, has been suspended.

Pippa Cuckson reports on the risks of accepting “catch rides” in Middle Eastern endurance, which was highlighted again this week for a 23-year-old rider.