Until tonight, no competitor at the Royal Horse Show had won three back-to-back Canadian show jumping titles. Yann Candele (Caledon, ON) changed that this evening, taking the Greenhawk Canadian Show Jumping Championship for an astounding third consecutive year. By merit of his standing after last night’s competition, Candele earned the right to jump last in […]
They don’t call him “The Flying Frenchman” for nothing. Two-time defending Canadian Show Jumping Champion Yann Candele (Caledon, ON), took the initial round of the Greenhawk Canadian Show Jumping Championships tonight in the Royal Horse Show, positioning himself well heading into tomorrow evening’s final. Although Candele incurred four time-penalties when Game Ready lowered the height […]
Artisan Farms has acquired La Toya 44, a 10-year-old bay Hannoverian mare (Le Cou Cou x Argentinus), for its rider Tiffany Foster, 28, of Schomberg, Ontario, Canada. Formerly owned by 2000 Olympic Champion Jeroen Dubbeldam and competed by Sjaak Sleiderink, both of the Netherlands, La Toya 44 joins Foster’s competitive string which presently includes her […]
The 90th Royal Agricultural Winter Fair opens this Friday, November 2, and with it, the prestigious Royal Horse Show in the Ricoh Coliseum. Opening weekend in the Royal Horse Show showcases the top-tier Canadians, with the $75,000 Greenhawk Canadian Show Jumping Championships and the $20,000 Good Crop Services Indoor Eventing taking place the evenings of […]
Ten-time Olympian Ian Millar will be inducted into the Jump Canada Hall of Fame alongside show jumping horse Hickstead at this year’s Jump Canada Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony and Gala. Presented by BMO Financial Group, the seventh annual black-tie event will take place on Sunday, November 4, 2012, at the Liberty Grand in Toronto, […]
Developed by two dedicated “dressage moms” the Ontario Has Talent program was designed to provide training and financial support to young dressage riders, who aspire to compete at the North American Junior & Young Riders’ Championships. Nathalie Lawson of North Bay and Gabrielle Sutton of Drumbo, both have daughters who compete in the discipline of […]
The stage is set for a dramatic and exciting opening weekend at the 90th Royal Horse Show, where five-time Royal champion Waylon Roberts (Port Perry, ON) will take on a bevy of Olympic, World Cup and Pan-Am medalists to defend his title in the Good Crop Services Indoor Eventing Challenge, Friday November 2 and Saturday […]
Beloved show jumping horse Hickstead will be inducted into the Jump Canada Hall of Fame alongside 10-time Olympian Ian Millar at this year’s Jump Canada Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony and Gala. Presented by BMO Financial Group, the seventh annual black-tie event will take place on Sunday, November 4, 2012, at the Liberty Grand in […]
Top notch riders squared off in exciting competition for a share of $450,000 in prize money at the richest western horse event in Canada. The Canadian Supreme brought close to six hundred horses to Red Deer’s Westerner Park September 23-29. The cream of the crop in performance horse riders put their equine stars through the […]
The owners of famed dressage stallion, Totilas, engaged in a bidding war at the 2012 Oldenburg autumn elite auction in Vechta, Germany, on October 6th, to bring home one of his own. Paul Schockemohle and Ann Kathrin Linsenhoff paid €200,000 for the Totilas foal, Total Recall, bidding against American Jamie White-Welling, who is married to […]
