Today, 25 September, we celebrate four years to go until the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games 2010 are officially opened in Kentucky (USA). Aachen 2006 - the Games Are Finished Much happened this summer in Aachen – great sport, brave horses, enthusiastic crowds – but before we turn that glorious page for good, here are some figures which you always wondered about and never dared to ask. Some 852 horses competed at Aachen. They were accommodated in 393 permanent and 360 temporary boxes. They used 2,500 bales of straw and 5,000 bales of shavings.Read more

We are the champions, we are the champions, of the worldAt the end of a grandiose Jumping Finale, Jos Lansink (BEL) was crowned the 2006 World Individual Jumping Champion without having committed, himself or his grey stallion Cavalor Cumano, a single mistake for the whole competition with rotation of horses. The silver goes to Beezie Madden (USA) and the bronze to Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum (GER). It was a day of fabulous sport and, most importantly, of fun and pleasure. “It was a lot a fun,” a smiling bronze medallist Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum said.Read more