Koos de Ronde produced an excellent performance late on Monday evening to win the FEI World Cup™ Driving at the Nekkerhal in Mechelen, Belgium for the fifth time in his career. Sweden’s Fredrik Persson drove with enormous skill to finish second ahead of Germany’s Georg von Stein whose team is finally coming together. Top favourite, […]
At the beginning of December, Endurance Great Britain (EGB) approached members with proposed sponsorship package from Meydan, a company owned by HH Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum. The package proposed providing EGB with a large but undisclosed sum of money to support EGB while also providing new ride opportunities in Great Britain. However, given […]
Equestrian journalist Pippa Cuckson has received the Liz Dudden Memorial Trophy in recognition of her tireless quest to expose horse welfare issues at the highest level of sport. Her ongoing coverage of the Middle East endurance scandals in international media outlets, including her blog at horsesport.com/cuckson-report, has shone a light on these issues, and demanded […]
Equestrian Sport Productions (ESP) hosted its Holiday Festival I this week on December 12-14, 2014, at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center in Wellington, FL. The week featured the $10,000 Equiline Open Stake on Friday with a win for Amanda Derbyshire (GBR) and Goldbreaker and the $25,000 Equiline Holiday I Grand Prix on Sunday with […]
Canadian dressage competitor Chris Von Martels recently returned to North America following six months of training and competing in The Netherlands. As a recipient of a $20,000 High Performance European Training and Competition Grant from the Canadian Dressage Athlete Assistance Program (C-DAAP), Von Martels was able to apply the funding towards his training and competition […]
Roly Owers of World Horse Welfare addressed the FEI General Assembly on the weekend. His address questions whether the FEI and all the national federations are doing enough to ensure equine welfare is paramount in sport. To follow is his speech. Your Royal Highness, Mr President, colleagues from across the Federations. Thank you for the […]
The International Jumping Riders Club Top 10 Final is an elite competition for the best of the best and an opportunity for the Top 10 riders and horses in the world to compete for end-of year supremacy. And after two rounds of intense competition, it was the rider who has dominated the World Rankings throughout 2014, Great […]
AD Camille Z, Athina Onassis’s 11-year-old Belgian-bred Zangersheide mare, was involved in an accident on December 11th during the Credit Suisse Grand Prix in Geneva, SUI. The pair fell at an oxer and the mare shattered her upper hind leg. It took 45 minutes to tranquilize the horse and remove her by ambulance to a […]
Equestrian sport is proving very popular with fans eager to take in the thrill of top-class international competition at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto. Tickets for the dressage, evening and show jumping events went on sale starting at 1:00 p.m. (EST) on Monday, December 8th, and they are almost all gone. The finals […]
Since moving to Europe just eleven months ago, Tatiana Dzavik’s determination, long hours, hard work, talent, and devotion have taken her places. The knowledge she has gained is invaluable, and the list of successes impressive. In this first year of having her own business, Dzavik has accomplished things she never thought possible. “I am beyond […]
