After three days of competition against 70 determined athletes from across Canada, Team Ontario brought home the hardware from the Canadian Interprovincial Equestrian Championships, which took place from Oct. 3-5 in Blainville, QC. Ontario took home second place in the overall standings and finished with a team silver in Show Jumping. Members of the Jumping […]
You are being judged from the minute you enter the ring to the minute you exit, so give yourself every opportunity to succeed.
Gareth Graves was a long way from his humble beginnings in equestrian sport when he stepped into the International Ring at Spruce Meadows for the first time
Steps to developing young horses with positive attitudes
Randy Roy is a senior international judge, course designer and author. He owns and operates Hunters Glen Show Stable in King, ON, with his daughter, Ryan Roy.
In the third and final segment of a series on training young event horses, top eventer Kendal Lehari and her instructor/event rider mother, Gwen, discuss their system for preparing four- and five-year-olds for their competition careers at Reindalyne Farm in Uxbridge, ON.
The jets have landed, the horses have settled in and the final week of show jumping competition is under way at Angelstone. Attracting a huge field of 47 horses, the ‘International’ has emerged as one of the marquee events on the North American FEI circuit, with riders representing five countries. If Thursday night’s $33,500 ‘Gilt’ […]
The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair is returning to Toronto for its 92nd annual run in November, promising to connect families and competitors with an expanded line-up of activities and entertainment that focus on Farm fresh Fun™. Featuring 10 days of diverse programming which showcases all that’s new in the world of farming and fresh, local […]
On October 2nd, CNN announced the Top 10 finalists for the CNN Heroes of 2014 award, including Juan Pablo Romero Fuentes, the founder of Los Patojos, the JustWorld International partner project in Guatemala. Since its inception, CNN Heroes has received tens of thousands of submissions from more than 100 countries and profiled over 200 heroes. […]
It is with great sadness that the Ontario Equestrian Federation announces the death of Marie-Helen Lessard, a respected competitor, coach, judge, official, horse show organizer and volunteer. Lessard, 49, and her husband, Steven Ratz, 57, were killed in a car crash on Sunday, Sept. 28, 2014 on Dufferin County Road 10 near their home in […]
