International News
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15 May 2013 at 21 : 45 PM
Canadian Future Super Star Pia Fortmuller in the Ribbons at CDI3* Radzionkow
Pia Fortmuller of Priddis, AB, currently residing and training in Germany, earned impressive results at the CDI3* Radzionkow, Poland May 3-5. Fortmuller and Orion, her 17-year-old Dutch Warmblood gelding sired by Jazz, took on a highly competitive field in Sunday’s FEI Grand Prix Freestyle where the duo’s impressive performance earned them the second place ribbon with a final score of 71.375%; only one of two 70.0% scores awarded by the judges in that class. In their FEI Grand Prix test, Fortmuller and Orion took home the third place ribbon on a final score of 68.872%. The pair bested Eleana Sidneva (RUS, 66.851%) on Romero-Star by 2.02%, narrowly missing second place by just ...
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11 May 2013 at 00 : 09 AM
Life After Racing: From Stud to Slaughter
For a horse like Orb, the sculpted colt that won the Kentucky Derby last week, the future holds plenty of promise. Besides earning the celebrity that comes with a high-profile victory, Orb is likely to attract the attention of breeders who would keep him healthy and occupied for the next 20 years. But the vast majority of horses competing on North American racetracks—more than 61,000 horses last year—will spend their careers running in lower-level races, far from the public eye. Most will never see the sort of breeding bids that draw their more successful counterparts into early retirement, so they'll race for as long as they can. When their bodies wear and ...
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10 May 2013 at 23 : 42 PM
British Columbia Horse Stable a Cover for Grow UP Operation
At a distance, it looks like a nice Canadian horse pasture housing a barked yard with open-air stalls lined up along one side. A closer examination reveals the whole setup is fake, designed to cover a sophisticated muiltmillion-dollar underground cannabis-growing operation. The horse stalls were entirely fake, according to authorities, instead disguising large vents used to keep the underground environment for the plants healthy. “They were not at all usable,” Sergeant Lindsey Houghton, of the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit of British Columbia, “They just looked the part.” “From far away, it looked like a very nice, quaint horse paddock and ...
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10 May 2013 at 23 : 00 PM
Thirty Horses Die in Pennsylvania Truck Fire
According to police the truck was driven by Clarence Phelps of Watertown. The owner of the horses was understood to be a kill buyer. Local reports indicated the truck caught fire and the driver stopped, but neither he nor emergency services were able to extinguish the flames. The horses were reportedly destined for the Viande Richelieu Meat slaughterhouse in Massueville, Quebec. Local reports misidentified the destination as a “rendering plant”, an operation that recycles dead animals and animal products into protein based compounds. More than 59,000 US horses were slaughtered in Canada in 2012, according to the US Department of ...
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10 May 2013 at 23 : 34 PM
Sudden Death of Top Canadian Dressage Rider
Canadian grand prix dressage rider Jon Costin has died suddenly at the age of 44. The death of Costin, who died at Joseph Brant Hospital in Burlington, Ontario on Tuesday, was “sudden and unexpected”, Equine Canada said. Costin trained with Neil and Cindy Ishoy for many years, was a several time Canadian World Cup League finalist, a USDF gold medalist, and, for three years, ranked top 60 in the World FEI/BCM Dressage standings. Costin was a well-respected professional dressage rider, training and coaching out of Jon Costin Dressage Inc. near Toronto. His career highlights include competing at the 2001 World Young Horse Championships in Verden, GER with Rebel ...
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6 May 2013 at 13 : 25 PM
Adelinde Cornelissen and Jerich Parzival back on top of world rankings
(FEI) - Adelinde Cornelissen (NED) and Jerich Parzival, the London 2012 Olympic silver medallists, have reclaimed the world number one spot in the FEI World Dressage Rankings. The pair have a 97-point lead over Helen Langehanenberg and Damon Hill NRW, who have moved up one slot to second place after clinching the 2013 Reem Acra FEI World Cup™ Dressage title - their first FEI World Cup victory - last weekend in Gothenburg (SWE). Charlotte Dujardin and Valegro, who became the first British combination to head the FEI World Dressage Rankings in September last year after their double gold medal performances at the London 2012 Olympic Games, are now in third with 2,563 points. ...
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30 April 2013 at 02 : 36 AM
Guenter Seidel Wins Del Mar National Grand Prix with 72.5%
DEL MAR, California, April 26–International U.S. rider Günter Seidel and Coral Reef Wylea, the 13-year-old Westfalen mare, were victorious at the Del Mar National Grand Prix on Friday with a score of 72.5% just ahead of Jan Ebeling and Rafalca with a score of 72.48%. Canada’s Karen Pavicic on Don Daiquiri were third on 67.362 per cent. Wylea (Weinberg x St. Jolie x Saluut) was bought by Coral Reef Ranch at Rancho Santa Fe, California last November from former U.S. team coach Klaus Balkenhol of Germany and previously competed by Anabel Balkenhol. Jan and Rafalca, an Oldenburg mare (Argentinius x Ratine x Rubinstein) who is now 16 years old, became a celebrity pair at last ...
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28 April 2013 at 15 : 32 PM
The Reem Acra Dream Comes True at Last for Langehanenberg
(FEI by Louise Parkes) - Germany’s Helen Langehanenberg lived up to all the promise she has shown over the last few seasons to clinch the 2013 Reem Acra FEI World Cup™ Dressage title in style today with the fabulous stallion, Damon Hill. She was a lady on a mission from the outset, driven on by the huge hunger she felt after having to settle for runner-up spot at last year’s Final before missing out on individual bronze at the London 2012 Olympic Games by an agonising 0.03 percentage points. Today the 30-year-old rider pushed all that into the past, producing a breath-taking performance that catapulted her into the lead when fourth-last to go of the 17 through to the closing ...
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18 April 2013 at 22 : 20 PM
Denmark is the Partner Country of CHIO Aachen 2013
Denmark is the official partner country of the World Equestrian Festival, CHIO Aachen 2013 (June 21st-30th). Princess Benedikte of Denmark presented the partnership at a reception in the Danish Embassy in Berlin. “We are happy and proud that our beautiful country is going to be the partner of the world’s largest equestrian sport event,” her Royal Highness Princess Benedikte of Denmark told the just under 100 guests invited to the Danish Embassy. Princess Benedikte has known the CHIO Aachen for many years and is always impressed by the atmosphere at the traditional showgrounds at the Soers in Aachen: “The atmosphere is unique and very international. The CHIO Aachen really is a ...
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2 April 2013 at 14 : 13 PM
Dressage and Para-Dressage judges from eight countries promoted to 5* status
(FEI) - A group of nine Dressage and Para-Dressage judges from Austria, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, Hong Kong, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the USA have been promoted to 5* status, the highest rank, by the respective FEI Technical Committees. The promotions, which will come into effect on 1 July, will allow the judges to officiate at major FEI Dressage and Para-Dressage events, such as FEI World Cup™ Dressage Finals, FEI Championships at Grand Prix level, FEI World Equestrian Games™, and the Olympic and Paralympic Games. The list of the new 5* judges is: Dressage: Susanne Baarup (DEN) Liselotte Fore (USA) Annette Fransen Iacobaeus (SWE) Thomas Lang (AUT) Eddy de Wolff ...
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1 February 2013 at 18 : 22 PM
Rozzie Ryan Wins at Australia’s Boneo Park for the Second Consecutive Year
(Equestrian Australia) - Boneo Park set the standard this year by accommodating some of Australia's finest at the 2013 Credit Suisse Boneo Park CDI*** over the weekend. Boneo Park certainly set the standard this year by accommodating some of Australia's finest at the 2013 Credit Suisse Boneo Park CDI*** over the weekend. Judges and sponsors from around the world, riders from around the country and organisers from around the state all merged together for the first official dressage qualifying event for the 2014 World Equestrian Games in Normandy. Thursday afternoon’s 40 degree heat didn’t stop the enthusiasm at the first official duty of the event, the trot up, where all Small and ...
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27 January 2013 at 05 : 07 AM
Stephen Clarke (GBR) elected as FEI Dressage Judge General
(FEI) - Stephen Clarke, the British judge who acted as President of the Ground Jury at the London 2012 Olympic Games, has been unanimously elected as FEI Dressage Judge General. He was elected to the post by the 5* Judges present at the annual FEI 5* Dressage Judges seminar, which was held in Paris 20-22 January. Clarke succeeds Ghislain Fouarge (NED), who became the first Dressage Judge General when the post was created in 2011. Fouarge had opted not to stand for re-election for a second two-year term. “We are very much looking forward to working with Stephen Clarke in his new role as Dressage Judge General,” said Trond Asmyr, FEI Director Dressage and Para-Equestrian Dressage. ...
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