Running Fox, Brian Gingras, David Esworthy and Michael Lawrence were honoured as the 2012 Jump Canada award winners in a special ceremony held during the annual Jump Canada Hall of Fame Gala on November 4 in Toronto, ON. Running Fox has been named as the Jump Canada Sponsor of the Year. Since 2000, Canadian owned […]

The FEI Nations’ Cup™ Jumping will have a fabulous new look – and a new name – from 2013 onwards, following finalisation of a 16 million Euro four-year sponsorship package from the Saudi Equestrian Fund. The series will now be called the Furusiyya FEI Nations’ Cup™. The sponsorship deal, worth four million Euro per annum […]

Steve Guerdat (SUI), the newly-crowned Olympic champion, has taken over as World Number One on the Rolex Rankings list published today. With 2,525 points, Guerdat takes over from European champion Rolf-Göran Bengtsson (SWE), who drops down to fourth place (2378). Olympic team gold medallist Nick Skelton (GBR) is in second place, just three points ahead […]

Dressage Canada regretfully announces the resignation of Markus Gribbe as Technical Leader for the Dressage Canada High Performance Program. Mr. Gribbe was instrumental in Canada’s team silver placing at the 2011 Pan American Games. This result qualified Canada to send a team to the 2012 London Olympic Games and he was present with the Canadian […]

Switzerland’s Pius Schwizer swept to victory with Verdi in the thrilling third leg of the Rolex FEI World Cup™ Jumping 2012/2013 Western European League series at Lyon, France. The big guns were out in force today including a heavyweight line-up of home runners, but Frank Rothenberger’s course saw just seven of the 40 starters go […]

The Good Crop Services Indoor Eventing challenge also concluded tonight, with the father and son duo of Ian and Waylon Roberts (both of Port Perry, ON) taking the reserve and champion positions following two heated rounds of competition. To say Waylon Roberts has monopolized indoor eventing at the Royal would be an understatement, as he […]

Until tonight, no competitor at the Royal Horse Show had won three back-to-back Canadian show jumping titles. Yann Candele (Caledon, ON) changed that this evening, taking the Greenhawk Canadian Show Jumping Championship for an astounding third consecutive year. By merit of his standing after last night’s competition, Candele earned the right to jump last in […]

They don’t call him “The Flying Frenchman” for nothing. Two-time defending Canadian Show Jumping Champion Yann Candele (Caledon, ON), took the initial round of the Greenhawk Canadian Show Jumping Championships tonight in the Royal Horse Show, positioning himself well heading into tomorrow evening’s final. Although Candele incurred four time-penalties when Game Ready lowered the height […]

The FEI joined the IOC as one of five co-sponsors of the Fourth International Consensus Conference on Concussion in Sport in Zurich (SUI) this week. The two-day conference, which was held at the FIFA headquarters on November 1-2, was also sponsored by FIFA, the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) and the International Rugby Board (IRB). […]

Para-Equestrian Canada is now accepting nominations to fill three vacant positions on the Canadian Para-Equestrian Committee (CPEC). The positions on the committee are not specific in task and each position is for a two-year term beginning in February 2013. The Committee is seeking candidates who possess the passion and drive to work with other committed […]