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A Message from FEI Medical Committee Chair Dr. Mark Hart

2024-10-15T21:51:52-04:00August 20, 2020|DressageDaily, Driving Daily, Driving Ponies, Endurance, Eventing, Looking Back, News, Para Equestrian, Show Jumping Daily, Vaulting, Wellness, Western HorsesDaily|

From the Fédération Equestre Internationale – Communications Department On behalf of the FEI, I want to share and express our commitment to the resumption of sporting activity and the resurgence of equestrian events worldwide. The FEI Board, Technical Committees, Calendar Task Forces and the Headquarters staff are working around the [...]

Emily Smith and Quantum Jazz – An American Dressage Success Story

2024-10-15T21:51:56-04:00August 13, 2020|DressageDaily, Looking Back, News||

Over the past years, the United States dressage community and equestrian organizations have invested heavily in programs aimed at developing future American riders and horses. If you wonder if such efforts are worthwhile, Dianne Georgian-Smith and her daughter Emily Smith answer that question with a resounding ‘yes.’ photo: © Joanna Jodka [...]

Every Breath Horses Take Affects Every Move They Make

2024-10-15T21:51:59-04:00August 8, 2020|DressageDaily, Driving Daily, Driving Ponies, Endurance, Eventing, Looking Back, Markel Insurance, Racing, Show Jumping Daily, Wellness, Western HorsesDaily|

"Respiratory health is essential to performance," stresses Dr. Emmanuelle Van Erck Westergren of a key focus at her Equine Sports Medicine Practice in Waterloo, Belgium.  ©Wilhelm Westergren The prominent veterinarian and thought leader spent 15 years engaged in equine health from a University-based perspective. She then left academia to apply [...]

FEI Driving World Championship Four-in-Hand 2020 Re-Allocated to Valkenswaard (NED) in October 2020

2024-10-15T21:51:05-04:00July 8, 2020|Driving Daily, Driving Ponies, Looking Back||

The FEI has issued the announcement below to the national federations. The driving sport committee will be considering the implications of this announcement, and what action is needed in terms of Selection Procedures and Application. NF News – Re-allocation of FEI Driving World Championship four in hand 2020 In line [...]

USEF Driven Dressage Test Announcement

2024-10-15T21:49:52-04:00June 19, 2020|DressageDaily, Driving Daily, Driving Ponies, Looking Back, News|

Lexington, Ky. - US Equestrian announces the publication of USEF Driven Dressage Tests for the Training, Preliminary, and Intermediate levels of Combined Driving events. Beginning September 1, 2020, these tests will be available as an option for organizers to use at USEF licensed Combined Driving competitions. The Driving Sport Committee, [...]

Hit the Road with Respiratory Health on Board

2024-10-15T21:49:54-04:00June 7, 2020|DressageDaily, Driving Daily, Driving Ponies, Eventing, Looking Back, Racing, Show Jumping Daily, Wellness||

The horse world is cautiously getting back on the road as competitions re-emerge on June calendars. Productive horse people likely spent some of the pandemic doing horse trailer maintenance: checking breaks, tires, interiors, hitches and electrical connections. Those critical aspects of safe equine transport tend to get a lot of [...]

Respiratory Health in Competition Horses – Key Points

2024-10-15T21:49:55-04:00June 7, 2020|DressageDaily, Driving Daily, Driving Ponies, Endurance, Eventing, Looking Back, Markel Insurance, Show Jumping Daily, Vaulting, Wellness, Western HorsesDaily||

Recently released is the USEF Learning Center video, Respiratory Health in Competition Horses, featuring veterinarian and FEI dressage rider Wren Burnley, DVM. Here's the social media & website links, followed by key points we hope will make it easy to share this educational video with your followers via stories or [...]

Flooring First – Young Florida Barn Builder Discovers ComfortStall Does It All

2024-10-15T21:48:49-04:00May 21, 2020|DressageDaily, Driving Daily, Looking Back, Show Jumping Daily, Wellness, Western HorsesDaily|

It's widely known in the equestrian world that horsemanship skills and horse sense in a business context don't always go together. They do at Whillans Equine, where 24-year-old hunter/jumper trainer and barn owner Emma Whillan's clear vision for every aspect her new training and boarding facility has led to a [...]

Modification to USDF Programs Announced as Resumption of Competitions On the Horizon

2024-10-15T21:48:49-04:00May 21, 2020|DressageDaily, Looking Back|, |

Noting this is but the close of a chapter, but not the end of the book, as I write this letter we are just a little over two weeks away from the expiration of the suspension of recording of results from USEF/USDF dressage competitions and dressage schooling shows on May [...]

2020 National Dressage Pony Cup & Small Horse Championships Canceled

2024-10-15T21:48:52-04:00May 7, 2020|DressageDaily, Looking Back, News|, |

The organizers of the National Dressage Pony Cup (NDPC) and Small Horse Championship Show regret to announce the cancellation of the 2020 event, which was scheduled for July 17-19 at the National Equestrian Center in Lake St. Louis, Mo., due to ongoing uncertainty surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. Last year’s NDPC [...]

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