The defending series champions from The Netherlands made it a back-to-back double on home ground at the third leg of the FEI Nations Cup™ Dressage 2015 pilot serles in Rotterdam, The Netherlands yesterday. With another new format on trial at this event, the competition began with a Grand Prix team competition on Thursday, from which […]
Hollywood Hideaway and Beliveau bumped a number of times down the lane, with Beliveau passing the wire first, but it was Hollywood Hideaway that took the spoils after being elevated to the win position following an inquiry in Saturday’s $132,000 Victoria Stakes, at Woodbine. The Victoria Stakes, a five-furlong sprint on Polytrack for two-year olds […]
Elizabeth Bates of Toronto, ON, claimed her first grand prix victory, winning the $35,000 Brookstreet Grand Prix at the Ottawa International Horse Show
Ingrid Klimke (GER) is on course to win her second CCI4* of the FEI Classics™ 2014/2015 after a breathtakingly bold Cross Country round on FRH Escada JS at Luhmühlen (GER), presented by DHL. “Escada was super fit and she jumps so big that she goes over the top of the hedges,” said a delighted Klimke, […]
In a competition that was very definitely a game of two halves, the team of Ben Maher, Joe Clee, Jessica Mendoza and Michael Whitaker sensationally secured the third British win of the Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup™ Jumping 2015 Europe Division 1 League at Rotterdam in The Netherlands, today. Team Germany looked set to cruise home […]
All eyes were on the clock on Friday, June 19, as Mac McQuaker contested the $7,500 Lynn Millar Memorial Speed Derby at the inaugural Ottawa International Horse Show running June 17 to 21 at Wesley Clover Parks in Ottawa, ON. McQuaker of Schomberg, ON, impressed with the eight-year-old Polish-bred gelding Brother Thelonious, owned by Heartland […]
Belgian rider Julien Despontin, who is competing in only his second CCI4*, leads a distinguished field of Olympians after Dressage at Luhmühlen (GER), presented by DHL, the fifth and penultimate leg of the FEI Classics™ 2014/2015. “It’s amazing. Unbelievable,” exclaimed the 25-year-old rider, who managed to hold his first-day lead over Olympic gold medallists Ingrid […]
Show jumping made its official return to the nation’s capital this week with local competitor Amy Millar of Perth, ON, leading the charge. With top-level jumper competition at the Ottawa International Horse Show underway, Millar piloted Heros, owned by AMMO Investments, to the top of a 33-horse starting field to win the $10,000 Karson Open […]
Following their great success at the 2014 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games (WEG) in France last summer, Canadian Para-Equestrian Team riders, Robyn Andrews, Lauren Barwick, Ashley Gowanlock and Roberta Sheffield have been reunited once again in Europe in a bid to qualify for the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games next September. The team is set to […]
The ASPCA® (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®) today revealed the seven winners of the 2015 ASPCA Help a Horse Day contest, a nationwide grant competition for equine rescues and sanctuaries to raise awareness about the year-round work they do to save and care for at-risk horses. The three grand prize […]
