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Reem Acra FEI World Cup™ Dressage Final: Grand Prix

Germany’s Helen Langehanenberg threw down the gauntlet when securing a convincing victory with Damon Hill NRW in the preliminary Grand Prix at the Reem Acra FEI World Cup™ Dressage 2012/2013 Final in Gothenburg, Sweden. The 30-year-old rider and her 13-year-old stallion have been challenging the supremacy of back-to-back double-champions Adelinde Cornelissen (NED) and her great […]
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World Cup™ Jumping and Dressage Finals Broadcast Schedule

The Rolex FEI World Cup™ Jumping and Reem Acra FEI World Cup™ Dressage Finals, which take place in Gothenburg (SWE) this week, will be live on FEI TV, the FEI’s official video platform. The broadcasts will take place according to the following schedule: Thursday, April 25th: 12.00 CEST – Reem Acra FEI World Cup™ Dressage […]
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Rolex Spotlight: Andrew Nicholson

All eyes will be on Andrew Nicholson (NZL) this weekend as he heads for the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event (USA) on  April 25-28 to try to extend his lead in the HSBC FEI Classics™ 2012/2013 series. Nicholson enjoyed a remarkable run of success last autumn, winning Burghley CCI4* (GBR), Blenheim CIC3* (GBR), Boekelo CCI3* (NED) and […]
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New Clicker Training Blog

Horse-Canada.com is pleased to introduce our all-new blog, The Pony Fairy, by Monty Gwynne. Better known as the “The Pony Fairy,” Gwynne is the only Canadian-approved Alexandra Kurland ‘Click That Teaches’ instructor. She has used clicker training for the past 15 years. For three decades before that, she successfully trained horses and their humans using […]
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Tim Hadaway Joins FEI as Director Games and Championships Department

Tim Hadaway, London 2012 Equestrian Competition Manager at Greenwich Park and the man widely credited for the success of last year’s Olympic and Paralympic equestrian events, has joined the FEI staff as Director of the newly created Games and Championships Department. The new Director’s role will be mainly to ensure that all FEI technical requirements […]
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Beerbaum, Ambassador of Equestrian Sport in China

The key Chinese media always refer to Ludger Beerbaum as the “Father of the German equestrian sport”. Even if the German equestrian sport is actually quite a few years older than the successful sportsman and entrepreneur from Riesenbeck, Westphalia, this reverent title clearly underlines the fact that the role Beerbaum is primarily playing at the […]
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Ocala Horse Properties International Three Day Event

Canadian Olympian Jessica Phoenix of Cannington, ON, led a large contingent of Canadian competitors at the CCI 2*/CCI 1* Ocala Horse Properties International Thee Day Event held April 11-14, 2013 at the Florida Horse Park in Ocala, FL. Phoenix took three of the top ten spots in the CCI 2* division. Partnered with Erodium, Kirk […]
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In Memoriam: Alberto Valdés Ramos

Alberto Valdés Ramos, Olympic team gold medallist at the London 1948 Games, has died at the age of 93. He was the oldest surviving member of Mexico’s 1948 Jumping “dream team”. His fellow team mates were Humberto Mariles, who also won individual gold – a feat unequalled by any other Mexican sportsman at the time […]
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Canada Takes Third in Wellington Nations Cup CDIO 3*

The highlight event of the Adequan Global Dressage Festival (AGDF) crowned its victors Friday afternoon at The Stadium of the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center (PBIEC). Ten teams competed in the Wellington Nations Cup CDIO 3*, presented by Stillpoint Farm, including two from both the United States and Canada. Team USA 1 finished first with […]