Here’s your chance to cheer on Canada’s world-class athletes at the much anticipated Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games (WEG) in Normandy, France from August 23 – September 7, 2014. Beginning Monday, November 18, 2013, Canada’s Official WEG Tour Operator, GVQ Travel, will be offering tickets to discipline competitions including: Dressage, Driving, Endurance, Eventing, Jumping, Para-Equestrian […]
Canadian dressage rider Pia Fortmuller achieved top results at the CDI3* Zakrzow, held Nov. 8-10 at the Equestrian Centre Park in South Zakrzow, POL. Riding her veteran partner Orion (a 17-year-old Dutch Warmblood gelding sired by Jazz) Fortmuller started on an extremely high note, winning the Grand Prix for Freestyle on a score of 68.34%. […]
Jordan MacPherson of Toronto, ON was crowned the 2013 National Talent Squad Series Champion in front of a hometown crowd at the Royal Horse Show on Nov. 10. Riding Aanwinst, an eight-year-old Dutch Warmblood mare owned by JEM Stables Inc., MacPherson made a clean sweep of the Final, winning both phases to earn a total […]
Equine Canada (EC) is excited to announce the official launch of the $20.14 for 2014 campaign. This innovative campaign allows Canadians to feel like they are part of the Canadian Equestrian Team (CET) by directly supporting them on their journey to the 2014 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games (WEG) in Normandy, FRA. Donations of $20.14 […]
In a masterful display of horsemanship, America’s McLain Ward (Brewster, NY) and Rothchild blazed a path to victory tonight in the Ricoh Coliseum, taking top honours in the $100,000 Hickstead FEI World Cup™ Grand Prix presented by GroupBy for the fifth time in his career. “The Hickstead class” as it is now known, was renamed […]
David Marcus of Campbellville, ON came out on top of the first phase of the $20,0000 Royal Invitational Dressage Cup on Nov. 6 at the Royal Horse Show in Toronto, ON. The Royal Invitational Dressage Cup is a gold-level Equine Canada dressage competition held annually at the Royal Horse Show. Each year the top four […]
Alexandra Perry of Vancouver, BC obtained a hard-fought win on Nov. 5 in the 2013 Jump Canada Medal Final at the CSI4*-W Royal Horse Show in Toronto, ON. After smoothly completing the initial over fences phase, which featured 11 obstacles set at the height of 1.10m, and included multiple broken lines, tricky angles, and both […]
Canadian Eventing athletes closed out the international competition season in North America over the weekend competing on two coasts at the CCI Galway Downs International Three Day Event in Temecula, CA, USA and the CCI 1* Virginia Three Day Event held in Lexington ,VA, USA. In California, Kiyomi Foster of Surrey, BC; Canada’s only CCI3* […]
Kim Morrison and Margaret “Muffie” Guthrie, were honoured as the 2013 Jump Canada award winners in a special ceremony held during Jump Canada Hall of Fame Reception at The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair on November 2 in Toronto, ON. With a distinguished career as an FEI and Equine Canada judge and Steward, Kim Morrison of […]
Equine Canada regretfully reports that 14-year-old Hanoverian gelding Reiki Tyme, beloved partner of Canadian dressage rider Roberta Byng-Morris, has passed away. “Roberta had a great relationship with Reiki Tyme. They performed consistently throughout the Pan Am trials in 2011 and were strong members of the silver medal winning Canadian Dressage Team at the Pan American […]
