Equine Canada has announced the athletes who will represent Team Canada in the Artisan Farms Under 25 Team Event Grand Prix, taking place Feb. 5, 2016 as part of the CSI 3* Adequan Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF) Week 3 in Wellington, FL. The Canadian team will include the following athletes: Name / Hometown / Horse […]
Canadian Leah Wilson Wilkins wowed the crowd during the first week of the prestigious CDI-W Adequan Global Dressage Festival
The Canadian Para-Equestrian Dressage Team kicked off 2016 in a big way, claiming many top finishes at the CPEDI 3* held Jan. 8-10 as part of the Adequan Global Dressage Festival in Wellington, FL. In addition to being the first major competition of 2016 for the Canadian Para-Equestrian Dressage Team, the Wellington CPEDI 3* marked […]
Former Canadian Show Jumping Team horse Mill Creek Raphael died on December 27, 2015, at the age of 25. Owned by Phil Henning of Mill Creek Stables in Cambridge, ON, before being donated to Equine Canada in 2003, Mill Creek Raphael was a bay Hanoverian gelding (Raphael x Gluecksstern) born in Germany in 1990. Bred […]
Equine Canada (EC) is pleased to announce that nominations are officially open for the 2016 EC Board of Directors. Following the successful implementation of new By-laws and Articles of Continuance in 2015, EC has modernized its governance framework to more effectively deliver on its mandate, which is to represent, promote and advance the sport in […]
Equine Canada (EC) is pleased to welcome David Hunter to the position of Para-Equestrian Dressage Team Manager, effective January 2016. Hunter, who currently resides in Norfolk County in England, has spent the past 13 years with the Great Britain Para Dressage Team, supporting them through team gold medal performances and countless individual medals at all […]
Judge, steward, clinician, and former president and chairman of the Canadian Equestrian Federation (now Equine Canada) David Esworthy passed away on Dec. 19 at the age of 86. A true horseman, Esworthy, who resided in Langley, BC, fed his passion for horses for nearly eight decades. Riding, training, judging – he did it all and […]
Jump Canada is pleased to announce the young athletes who have been named recipients of the Jump Canada Bursary for 2015.
Equine Canada is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2015 Para-Equestrian Canada/Sport Canada grants. For nearly a decade, Para-Equestrian Canada and Sport Canada have worked in partnership to fund programs that encourage increased participation in competition from the demographic of riders with a disability. The following therapeutic riding centres were provided grants up to […]
Deepest sympathies are expressed to the friends and family of the late Doug Leatherdale, who passed away peacefully on his 79th birthday, Dec. 6, surrounded by loved ones. He was an integral part of the Canadian dressage scene, well-respected as both a breeder of high quality horses, and as an owner of numerous grand prix […]
