The highlight event of the season wrapped up the Spruce Meadows ‘Masters’ with some of the best show jumping competition in the world. Pieter Devos of Belgium rode Candy to victory in the $1 Million CN International, part of the Rolex Grand Slam of Show Jumping, over Olympic gold medalist Steve Guerdat (SUI) on Nasa […]
Jonathan ‘Jock’ Paget and his fellow New Zealand riders showed the way with their brilliant Cross Country riding at the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials, final leg of the HSBC FEI Classics™, and they now hold seven of the top 10 places. Paget is in first and second on Clifton Promise and Clifton Lush; last […]
The last qualifying leg of the Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup™ 2013 series certainly lived up to expectations with thrills, spills and a gripping battle before Brazil won through and Austria clinched the only remaining qualifying spot for the series Final. France and Switzerland shared second place ahead of a courageous British side who didn’t have […]
Jonathan ‘Jock’ Paget (NZL) and Clifton Promise could be on the brink of making Eventing history after taking over the lead after Dressage at the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials, final leg of the HSBC FEI Classics™. The 29-year-old New Zealander has pledged to take all the direct routes on Mark Phillips’s much-respected Cross Country […]
Saturday at the Spruce Meadows ‘Masters’ is always full of national pride, and this year was no different. Eight top teams from around the world went head to head, and the winning nation for the second year in a row was Germany with teammates Hans Dieter Dreher/Colore, Christian Ahlmann/Asca Z, Daniel Deusser/Evita van de Veldballe, […]
Speed and power described the two competitions on the schedule today at the Spruce Meadows ‘Masters’. Opening up the evening was the $205,000 Encana Cup 1.60m, and the fastest in the jump-off was Calgary’s own Ben Asselin on Makavoy. The $75,000 ATCO Electric Six Bar featured four rounds of thrilling jumping as Martin Fuchs (SUI) […]
Spruce Meadows has announced that Canadian Pacific (CP) will be the new title sponsor for its highlight grand prix at the Masters in 2014. The Canadian Pacific International will set a new benchmark for the sport of show jumping, and its $1.5 Million dollar purse not only represents a dramatic increase in prize money for […]
Canadian Olympic Champion Eric Lamaze is off to a strong start at the CSIO5* Spruce Meadows “Masters” tournament, placing second in the $125,000 CANA Cup on Thursday, September 5. The five-day international show jumping competition runs September 4 to 8 in Calgary, AB. Lamaze was one of five riders to successfully negotiate the first round […]
Ingrid Klimke (GER) and FRH Butts Abraxxas thrilled the excited crowd at the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials, final leg of the HSBC FEI Classics™, and now holds the overnight lead after the first day of Dressage. They scored 39 penalties and are three points clear of the two riders currently holding joint-second place: Andreas […]
The winners of the Horsepower Fantasy Horses Art Contest have been announced in the September/October issue of Horsepower. Click here to check them out! Kids were asked to draw or paint a fantasy horse of any sort for the chance to win a prize from Can-Pro. First prize was an IRH Equi-Lite Fashion helmet and second […]
