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.
Fears that a welfare scandal at the 2018 World Equestrian Games will taint all equestrian sport are highlighted in a letter to the USEF from the AERC.
Top US eventer Hannah-Sue Burnett and two other riders were provisionally suspended by the FEI on December 21 after testing positive to prohibited stimulants. All three tested positive to Amfetamine at the Ocala Jockey Club International 3-Day Event in Florida last month, where the CIC3* was won by Burnett and Harbor Pilot, owned by Jacqueline […]