The 2013 North American Endurance Team Challenge (NAETC) will be held at Black Prong Equestrian Center in Levy County, Florida, December 13, 2013. It will be a 160 km Team event. Endurance Canada International is very pleased to announce our declared riders for this competition: Canada East Wendy Benns Bob Gielen Monica Grundmann Lee Hutten […]
General Raimondo d’Inzeo, eight-time Olympian and individual gold medallist at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, has passed away at home in Italy at the age of 88. Born on 2 February 1925 in Poggio Mirteto, north of Rome, Raimondo d’Inzeo was the son of renowned equestrian Carlo Costante d’Inzeo, chief instructor in Piemonte Reale, […]
The International Horse Show (CHI) of Geneva has been voted “Best event in show jumping of the year”. Voted on by the International Jumping Riders Club (IJRC), the results will be published in this year’s L’Annee Hippique. In other categories, Aix-la-Chapelle in Germany was awarded best dressage show, and Burghley, in Great Britain, the best […]
Germany’s Hans-Dieter Dreher produced the performance of a life-time when winning the fourth leg of the Longines FEI World Cup™ Jumping 2013/2014 series at Stuttgart today. And his victory was all the more celebrated because he was competing in front of his local crowd. The 41-year-old Swiss-based rider simply galloped the rest into the ground […]
“It was a bit unexpected,” Christopher Burton said of his history-making victory with Stephanie Pearce’s TS Jamaimo in the HSBC Adelaide CCI4*, second leg of the FEI Classics™ 2013/2014. Burton only secured the ride on the Thoroughbred gelding less than a week before the event following the injury to Will Enzinger and created history, certainly […]
Defending champions, Germany’s Helen Langehanenberg and the super-stallion Damon Hill NRW, swept to a glorious victory at the second leg of the Reem Acra FEI World Cup™ Dressage 2013/2014 series on home turf in Stuttgart today. “It was unbelievable! I was speechless when I came out of the arena!” said the 31 year old rider […]
The cards were shuffled a little, but as expected the experienced combinations kept control of the HSBC CCI4* after a glorious Cross Country day in Adelaide, second leg of the FEI Classics™ 2013/2014 series. Time penalties changed the order slightly with Stuart Tinney (AUS) adding just 0.4 with John and Jane Pittard’s Pluto Mio to […]
Bulldog Racing’s Alpha Bettor arrived in the nick of time to capture Friday’s $150,000 Grade 2 Autumn Stakes, at Woodbine. A chestnut son of Alphabet Soup trained by Dan Vella and ridden by Justin Stein, Alpha Bettor arrived at the 1 1/16-mile ‘Poly’ stake off a narrow front-running defeat in the Grade 3 Durham Cup […]
Australia’s Shane Rose had the best of the action on Dressage day at the Adelaide CCI**** and goes into tomorrow’s Cross Country holding first and third place, but with the country’s most experienced and talented riders snapping at his heels. Rose holds the advantage with Elizabeth and Felicity Wischer’s German import, CP Qualified by Quite […]
Here’s your chance to cheer on Canada’s world-class athletes at the much anticipated Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games (WEG) in Normandy, France from August 23 – September 7, 2014. Beginning Monday, November 18, 2013, Canada’s Official WEG Tour Operator, GVQ Travel, will be offering tickets to discipline competitions including: Dressage, Driving, Endurance, Eventing, Jumping, Para-Equestrian […]
