Pippa Cuckson comments on newly re-elected FEI president Ingmar de Vos’ “road map” for his next four-year term in office, sweeping terms and all.

A shorter dressage Grand Prix will be trialled at the London Olympia World Cup show on December 17th, and reactions are mixed.

Pippa Cuckson observes that most people in the horse industry are too frightened to report matters of concern, especially when anonymity isn’t guaranteed.

This time of year is massive for eventing, with Kentucky and Badminton back-to-back, but you’d be hard pressed to find news about it from the FEI.

Over the next three years, performance boots, also known as “pinch” boots and “flick” boots will be banned in the sport of show jumping, by the FEI.

A shocking tale of show jumper who was caught intentionally doping two of his teammates horses at an international competition to further his own career.

More new rules that attempt to slow riders down in endurance will be presented to the FEI General Assembly in 10 days’ time following “official” research.

No yellow cards have been handed out in para dressage for over a year. The jumpers and dressage riders are also well behaved, it seems.

There are misgivings about the “cons” as well as “pros” of pinning among some designers and senior riders. Pins are just one cog in a very big safety wheel.

It can’t be a total coincidence. Chris Bartle starts training the Brits and at Strzegom in Poland they win their first European eventing team gold in eight years. Chris Bartle stops training the Germans, and they don’t wholly dominate the Europeans for the first time since goodness knows when. Well, it is not quite as […]