Japan’s Yoshiaki Oiwa and Noonday de Conde produced a sensational test to take the individual lead in the closing stages of Eventing dressage at the London 2012 Olympic Games in Greenwich Park (GBR) today. The quiet-spoken 36-year-old admitted afterwards that he could hardly believe it. “I’m a bit shocked”, he said at the post-competition press […]

Hawley Bennett-Awad of Langley, BC, was the highest placed member of the Canadian Olympic Team for Eventing as competition opened on Saturday, July 28, at Greenwich Park for the 2012 London Olympic Games. Three Canadian Olympic Team members for Eventing competed on the first of two days of dressage competition with Bennett-Awad currently ranked 11th […]

German riders filled the top two places in the individual rankings as Olympic Eventing got underway at Greenwich Park in London (GBR) today with the first of two days of dressage. Ingrid Klimke, team gold medallist at the Beijing Games equestrian events in Hong Kong four years ago, steered Butts Abraxxas to a score of […]

Olympic athlete biographies available on http://www.fei.org/ It’s the final countdown to tomorrow’s Opening Ceremony for the London 2012 Olympic Games and the FEI is pleased to let fans of equestrian sport know that full biographies of all the athletes that will be starring in Greenwich Park are available on the FEI website here. This new […]

The first horses have arrived at Greenwich Park, setting for the Olympic equestrian events at London 2012. The equine athletes’ trunks of equipment must undergo the equivalent of the airport-style “mag and bag” checks done on every person attending the Olympic Games. This has been done for the first 75 of 219 Olympic horses that […]

Count Jacques Rogge, President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), has given his support to the FEI Awards 2012 as London prepares to host the Games of the XXX Olympiad. Count Rogge, who was elected as the eighth President of the IOC in 2001 and re-elected for a new term in 2009, said: “I am […]

Germany took Dressage Team and Freestyle gold, the British once again dominated in Jumping and the Irish recorded their first-ever team success while also claiming two of the three individual medals in Eventing at the FEI European Pony Championship 2012 in Fontainebleau, France.  Sanne Vos claimed the Individual Dressage title for The Netherlands, but was […]

There was a time when the world of international Dressage was all too predictable, but how much that has changed. Since the last Olympic Games in 2008 this sport has experienced an extraordinary make-over which, despite the reticence of the purists, has ensured that the buzz ahead of London 2012 could hardly be more electrifying. […]

With just 10 days to go to the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 London Olympic Games, the hopes and dreams of equestrian athletes and their support crews are all focused on Greenwich Park, in the heart of England’s capital city. It would be difficult to find a more gracious location in which to celebrate equestrian […]

Dana van Lierop was the show-stopper as The Netherlands scooped all gold in the Junior division, while Denmark’s Cathrine Dufour recorded a Danish double in the Young Riders at the 2012 FEI European Dressage Championships for Young Riders and Juniors which drew to a close in Berne, Switzerland today. Germany, so dominant when claiming five […]