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Far-reaching Initiatives Announced at Endurance Round Table

The FEI has announced bold steps that will ensure improved protection of the welfare of horses in Endurance events, proposing unprecedented athlete penalties for equine injuries, extended rest periods and increased accountability. The moves were fully supported by delegates attending the Endurance round table on April 29th at the FEI Sports Forum in Lausanne (SUI). […]
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FEI President HRH Princess Haya Will Stand for Re-Election

HRH Princess Haya has signalled her intention to stand for re-election as FEI President following an overwhelming vote in favour of amending the FEI Statutes to allow FEI Presidents to serve three consecutive four-year terms in office. The vote on amending the Statutes to prolong the term of the FEI President took place at the […]
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New Course for Eventing Officials Technical Delegates and Judges

Equine Canada and Canadian Eventing Officials Committee are pleased to offer an educational course for eventing officials technical delegates and judges. The course may be used towards promotion or maintenance of EC Eventing Official’s accreditation of Technical Delegates, Three Day Event Judges and Evening Jumper Judges. It will be facilitated by Overall Course Director Jo Young, […]
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FEI Launches New SportApp

The FEI launched its free FEI SportApp on the first day of the FEI Sports Forum. The app allows users access to the FEI’s entire sports calendar, including detailed programmes and schedules. FEI athletes can also use the app to see clearly which events they are entered for with their horses, get live information on […]
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Sustainability and IT initiatives feature at FEI Sports Forum

The FEI Sustainability Programme and the proactive sustainable steps that can be taken at equestrian events around the world were detailed by Dr Harald Müller (GER), FEI Director Education and Standards, to open the afternoon session of the FEI Sports Forum 2014. The new FEI Sustainability Handbook for Event Organisers, circulated during the session and […]
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2014 FEI Sports Forum Opens

FEI President HRH Princess Haya welcomed more than 300 delegates to the third FEI Sports Forum, which opened at the prestigious IMD business school in Lausanne (SUI) today. Addressing delegates from 70 National Federations, representatives of the FEI Associate members, experts, guests, FEI Bureau and Technical Committee members, and FEI staff, the FEI President stressed […]
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William Fox-Pitt Scores at Rolex

William Fox-Pitt (GBR) kept the cool head for which he is famous to win his third Rolex Kentucky Three Day Event in five years. Fox-Pitt, already a triple winner of the FEI Classics™, now heads the 2013/2014 leaderboard by 15 points after three out of six legs. The runner-up, Lauren Kieffer (USA), competing in only […]
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Training Begins at Fort Erie Race Track

It was all systems go at Fort Erie Race Track on Sunday, April 27th as a healthy number of eager equine athletes began training at The Border Oval. With opening day exactly one month away trainer Dan Wills plans to have up to 15 horses stabled at Fort Erie. Wills, who works alongside his wife […]
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Purely Hot Makes the Grade in Whimsical

Purely Hot closed into a hot pace to capture Saturday’s $159,300 Grade 3 Whimsical Stakes, at Woodbine. Purely Hot, trained by Tevis McCauley for Unlimited Equine LLC, earned her first graded win with a powerful stretch run to overtake pacesetter Goldstryke Glory in the six furlong ‘Poly’ stake with Chantal Sutherland Kruse in the irons. […]