Press Releases
FEI LAUNCHES GLOBAL SAFETY HELMET CAMPAIGN
18 December 2012The FEI has launched a global campaign to promote the use of protective headgear. The move comes two weeks before implementation of a new rule making the use of a properly fastened protective headgear mandatory while riding on the show grounds at FEI events. The campaign, which will be conducted mainly online, begins today, a fortnight before the new rule comes into effect on 1 January 2013 ...
Read moreEVENT RIDERS ASSOCIATION MEETS FEI TO DISCUSS FEI RULES CHANGES
17 December 2012Representatives from the Event Riders Association met with Giuseppe Della Chiesa, Chair of the FEI Eventing Committee, and Catrin Norinder, FEI Director Eventing & Olympic in London (GBR) on 6 December 2012 to talk through changes to the FEI Eventing Rules that will be implemented from 1 January 2013.
The meeting was designed as a clarification exercise and as an opportun ...
Read moreFEI WORLD CUP™ VAULTING - ANDREANI AND SNEEKES WIN IN PARIS
12 December 2012By Daniel Kaiser
World Vaulting Champion and local hero Nicolas Andreani was greeted with rapturous applause by spectators at France’s biggest equestrian event, the Salon du Cheval de Paris, when he made his entrance into the FEI World Cup Vaulting™ 2012/2013 series last weekend.
The 28-year-old winner of the FEI World Vaulting Cham ...
Read moreIn Memoriam: Jane Pontifex (GBR), 1928-2012
11 December 2012Jane Pontifex, scorer at the first Badminton Horse Trials in 1949 and a well-known and well-respected equestrian journalist, has died at her home in Surrey (GBR). She was 84.
Jane was the first official scorer for British horse trials. She valued accuracy in everything she did, and one of her most important legacies was in helping to devise the scoring system for horse trials ...
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