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World Games for rider Ros Clapp

Baltonsborough rider Ros Clapp has been selected for the Great Britain endurance team for the World Equestrain Games which start this weekend in Kentucky. The 16-day event, which starts on Saturday, will see Clapp and her horse Nazeeka competing in the long distance horse riding event which starts on Sunday.

This will be Clapp's first appearance at world level, having competed in the European Endurance Championships in Assisi, Italy, last year.<

FEI Balkan Endurance Championships 2011

The host nation scooped team and individual gold at the FEI Balkan Endurance Championships 2011 staged at Koprivshtitsa in Bulgaria last weekend. The Bulgarian side were the only finishers in the three-nation team contest, while Miroslav Borshosh produced an impressive and well-judged performance with his Arab gelding, Munir B, to emphatically claim the individual title. Koprivshtitsa, which lies on the Topolnitsa River and in the Sredna Gora mountains, i

Renske Giesen Dutch champion TREC T4

Dutch championship TREC was held last weekend in Hoenderloo. Seven riders competed in the highest class (T4) against each other. Renske Giesen eventually went away with the title. The first part was Saturday start: POR (oriëntatierit). The participants were about six hours on the road with their route, where they only had to work with their map and a compass. Renske Giesen after the POR was already in the lead with 222 points. Heidi Hugen-Beckers followed

Mara Feola and Grigali win the European Championships Juniors and Young Riders Endurance

A triumph. Individual gold medal, silver medal team. Mara Feola back from Belgium with neck won two medals in the prestigious European Championships Endurance reserved for juniors and young riders. A great joy for the whole of Sardinia equestrian who accompanied the sixteen Mara in the Mont Soie, a physical and logistical support, especially by a large group arrived in Belgium straight from Santa Teresa di Gallura, led by Anna Teresa Vincentelli and Mauriz

Endurance Team Member Back After Baby

It takes a lot of grit and determination, not to mention physical stamina, to be an endurance rider at the top level, especially if you have just given birth to a daughter and intend to be on the team for the World Equestrian Games (WEG) to be held in Kentucky, USA in September.

Ros Clapp, 37, from Baltonsborough, Somerset, competed the 80km Endurance Ride at BarbaryCastle on 7th August, with her team horse, Nazeeka, just 27 days after her secon

Miguel Vila Ubach Triumphant in test of Endurance

Miguel Vila Ubach, of Spain, and his eight-year-old Hungares landed a surprise victory in the 160-kilometre World Endurance Championship yesterday. The first of seven disciplines at the World Equestrian Games, the endurance developed into a war of attrition.

Ubach was followed home by two French riders, Virginie Atger on Kangoo d'Aurabelle, also an eight-year-old, and Elodie le Labourier with Sangho'Limousian, who is twice his compatriot's age a

Sarah Chakil Finishes 8th at World Equestrian Games

How did the French riders fare over the competitions at The World Equestrian Games? Have they brought back plenty to think about in preparation for the 2014 Games in Normandy?

Endurance Team Selection Announcement

After a very successful day at Kings Forest, the endurance eam announced, on behalf of the Selectors that the following combinations have been selected from the World Class Start Squad to travel to Mont Le Soie on 30th April 2011 to compete as a Team representing Great Britain. They will all ride in the 120km FEI 2*.

Fiona Griffiths and Dear Kate
Lindsey Comben and Radhwan
Andrea Champ and Driumghiga Luxor
Sue Higgins and Ab

Virginie Atger on Kangoo d`Aurabelle Finish 2nd in 160-kilometre World Endurance Championship yesterday

Miguel Vila Ubach, of Spain, and his eight-year-old Hungares landed a surprise victory in the 160-kilometre World Endurance Championship yesterday. The first of seven disciplines at the World Equestrian Games, the endurance developed into a war of attrition. Ubach was followed home by two French riders, Virginie Atger on Kangoo d'Aurabelle, also an eight-year-old, and Elodie le Labourier with Sangho'Limousian, who is twice his compatriot's age and will now

Nikki Malcolm takes endurance championship

Up and coming endurance rider, Nikki Malcolm, achieved her best result to date to take the National Championship with Khartoum With AK, also finishing fifth in the international FEI CEI 3* competition won by HE Sheikh Majid bin Mohammed Al Maktoum and Spendacrest Kamouflage. Bred for endurance by the late Cheryl Logan, Khartoum With AK is an Anglo, by the Arab stallion, Khairho, who himself won multiple 100 mile endurance races, and out of a 17hh T

Pan Am Endurance Silver Medalists Receive MHIB Award

On Nov. 15 the Maryland Horse Industry Board (MHIB) presented its "Touch of Class" Award to Anne Arundel resident and horse trainer John Crandell III and his Endurance Triple Crown winning Arabian gelding, Heraldic, who together won two silver medals from the Endurance competition at the Pan American Games, held in Chile on Oct. 21. Crandell and Heraldic will lead the U.S. Team in the World Endurance Championship in England in 2012--an event held simultane

Christine Yeoman forms part of exceptionally good team

Senior endurance rider Christine Yeoman will contest her second World Equestrian Games after Endurance GB team selectors confirmed her place on the squad heading to Kentucky in September. "I am really proud to be part of what I believe is an exceptionally good team.

"There is a very strong chance of bringing back a medal this time," said the Shepton-Mallet rider who competed at the last WEG in Aachen and twice at European Championships.

Two French Riders Topped the Meydan Open Riders World Ranking for FEI

Two French riders topped the Meydan Open Riders World Ranking for FEI year end results. Virginie Atger, who was ranked fifth in the world last year, topped the list in 2010 by just 14 points over fellow Frenchwoman Sarah Chakil. In 2010 Atger won a number of rides, including the CEI*** 160-km Sommant and 160-km Rambouillet in France. She also finished 10th in the World Endurance Championship in Lexington, Kentucky.

Chakil won the 160km CEI*** La

Seren Arabians

We are a small stud in the Lake District, careful breeders of pure bred arab horses for our own endurance ridden use for over 20 years. We have realised how few straight Crabbet stallions at public stud are left in the UK, and have expanded our breeding of 100% Crabbet and GSB arabian foals at home and to visiting mares. Our 100% Crabbet endurance stallion Hanson stood here until his death in 2009. He had just been joined here by Winged Saint, also straigh

UK emerges largest exhibitor with a 50-strong group at Al Fares Dubai 2004

The United Kingdom has emerged as the largest group participating in Al Fares Dubai 2004, the fifth international equine trade fair, thereby endorsing Dubai's position as one of the leading centres for equestrian activities.

The Nottinghamshire-based Creature Comforts is one of the several repeat exhibitors in Al Fares Dubai 2004, to be held from December 6-8, at the Dubai International Exhibition Centre (DIEC).

Creature Comforts is m

Yawl Hill Stud

We are a small stud/competition yard based on the Devon /Dorset border that specialises in competing endurance horses of all levels up to international. We have 4 horses registered for Endurance in 2009. Yawl Hillbilly and Ishtar Spirit who are both PBA and will both be 6 and spend the year doing open rides, Connie a Anglo Arab who will be 14 and will be aimed at the 100 miles at Golden Horseshoe in what will be her 10th Endurance season and our present

Ceci Butler-Stasiuk to ride Ace`s Comet in Abu Dhabi`s Invitational ride

28 February – One of three U.S. riders invited to bring a horse to ride in the February 12th Abu Dhabi President of the UAE endurance ride, Ceci Butler-Stasiuk, will take Katie Shah’s Ace’s Comett (ACE INTHE HOLE x GRA MISS CARYCYN). Butler-Stasuik has had a good year in competition on Cypress Trails horses, DJB KD Fantasia, DJB K De Cielo and DJB MontyontheSpot….but these horses have already put in a good year’s competition getting ready for the World

Strong competition at European Endurance Champs

France, once again, showed their skill and sheer determination when each one of their finishing team members, Philippe Benoit, Virginie Atger and Pascale Dietsch, had final loop speeds of over 21.9kph. French Chef d'Equipe Mr. Jean Louis Leclerc has now gained both the World and European titles with his hugely successful team.

Alltech FEI WEG U.S. Endurance Team Announced

The U.S. Equestrian Federation has announced the members of the U.S. endurance team at the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games. The list is as follows, in alphabetical order:

Team:

1. Deborah Reich of Croton-on-Hudson, New York, on Juniper RJW (Deste Onismus x Deste Toouche), an eight-year-old Arabian mare owned by Rolling Stone Farm, Slatington, Pennsylvania.

2. Heather Reynolds of Los Gatos, California, on Ssamiam (Sam Tik

Congratulations to Jack Bégaud and Lucie Marin

After breakfast at the St Jean l'hippodrome the vans crowded into the fields surrounding the centre of Arpheuilles St Priest. The cavaliers group their horses into a field and the start is imminent. At 7:30 behind a security vehicle the 55 competitors go past the church, then disappear as if swallowed by the Bourbonaise countryside. The Montluçon CEI** is off, despite the disruption of the itinery caused by the Cher floods.

9h40 – the first cava

Jack Begaud dominates the world of Endurance at the end of October

The 5th edition of the new FEI Endurance World Ranking List includes events from 1 January 2005 to 30 October 2005. With 790 points, Jack Begaud is the undisputed leader of the FEI World Endurance Rankings. He added 124 points more to his score during October, notably thanks to his 7th place in Montcuq with his relatively inexperienced mount Najshan. Finishing second in Montcuq with Jonas de Griège, only 10” behind the winner Karine Hebrault, Ludovic Sarou

Canadian Endurance Riders Set to Compete at North American Junior and Young Riders Championships

Endurance Canada is pleased to announce the riders representing Canada at the 2012 Adequan FEI North American Junior and Young Riders Championships. Presented by Gotham North, these Championships will be held July 17-22 at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, KY. Riders will compete for top honours in the NAJYRC-CH 4* FEI Championship. The team will be comprised of Lee Hutten of Chesterville, ON, riding Parker AES, Dessia Miller's 12-year-old Arabian

Marijke Visser to start World Endurance Championship

Coach Emile Docquier has selected Marijke Visser and Eomer for the Endurance World Championship for Juniors and Young Riders in the French Ibos Tarbes. The twenty strongest youth rider Netherlands currently has, with its mold Eomer much international experience in endurance. A good finish at the World Championship in 2011 and the fourth place at the European Championship in 2012 earned Visser last winter an invitation to the President's Cup in Abu Dhabi.

Zayin Arabian Stud

In the last ten years I have bred 17 Arabian performance horses starting in 1999 with the Part bred colt Zayin Shijami (by TB Noble Envoy out of Shikari PBA). Since then I have concentrated on breeding solely pure bred Arabians for racing and endurance, the first Kumara Zayin being born in 2001. We have utilised the best bloodlines available using stallions from Umm Qarn Farm, Shadwell Stud and Conkwell Stud. The band of broodmares represents the finest pr

Spaniard wins endurance with strong horse

Try to comprehend what Maria Alvarez Ponton of Spain accomplished Sunday. Seven weeks after giving birth to a daughter, Maria, mom went out and captured the gold medal in the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games endurance event. Covering 100 miles in and around the Kentucky Horse Park, Ponton came in to the event as reigning world and European champion.

Sunday, she sat in second place through the first two vet checks, then took control on her Fren

Pan-American Endurance Championships 2011 - Santo Domingo, Chile

Endurance riders from Uruguay claimed Team and Individual gold in the Senior division, while the host nation of Chile dominated the Young Riders classes at the 2011 Pan-American Endurance Championships staged in Santo Domingo (CHI) last weekend. Bernardo Algorta registered an impressive average speed of 20 kilometres an hour with his horse, Cacique, to take the Senior title for Uruguay, while Chile's Sebastian Taverne and Eclipse covered the challenging c

Kassalic Stud

We are a small stud in Somerset situated 5 mins from the A303. We breed arabian horses and spotted ponies and are currently working on a programme to combine the two, bringing the best attributes from both breeds to produce quality performance ponies. We alo breed shetland ponies and spottys. First and foremost we are breeding for good confirmation and temprement so that we produce foals of good quality that will hopefully have the ability to perform under

Australasian Endurance Forum Attracts Multi National Attendance

Over 150 delegates representing nine different nationalities are attending the Australasian FEI Endurance Conference and Forum, which began in Brisbane (AUS) today. Delegates from Australia, Canada, France, Great Britain, Malaysia, New Zealand, Thailand, the UAE and the USA are taking part in three days of lectures and discussion sessions across a wide range of topics relating to international Endurance. This is the first time the world forum has been hel

The New British Endurance World Class Start and Potential Squad

Following a meeting at Hartpury International Team assessment day in November 2010, the new British Endurance World Class Start and Potential Squad has been formed - WCSPS. Horse and Rider combinations with an eye on FEI and International Team Competitions, can now enter the squad having completed a minimum of 2 x 80k rides (at speeds under 16kph within the last 24 month). Following on from this the management team will assess and prepare combinations to c

Strong competition at European Endurance Champs

The FEI European Endurance Championship Open Qatar Challenge earlier this month was the first time Portugal had hosted an endurance event of this level. Several nations were slightly apprehensive about the track at in Barroca d'Alva, which although was flat with generally good going was demanding and would require a 'thinking cap' to achieve a good result.

Lately in endurance the trend has been to have one central vet gate from which all loops s

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Big Buck`s seeks 14th straight win in Ascot`s Long Walk Hurdle

Big Buck`s seeks 14th straight win in Ascot`s Long Walk Hurdle

Brilliant stayer Big Buck's will face six rivals as he bids to stretch his unbeaten run over hurdles to 14 in Saturday's Long Walk Hurdle at Ascot. Paul Nicholls' eight-year-old has won the last two renewals of the race, but they have both been run at Newbury. Victory at Ascot would see Big Buck's beat dual champion hurdler Bula's winning run of th

Free tickets to a raceday at Newbury

Free tickets to a raceday at Newbury

The Racecourse Newbury in partnership with The Royal Agricultural College is holding an event called Greatwood Charity Raceday on Saturday 2nd march 2013, this is a day that alongside some of the season's best Jump racing, celebrates the beauty and versatility of the horse with a host equestrian demonstrations and an interactive riding zone. This f

Sadlers Rock takes the Goodwood Cup

Sadlers Rock takes the Goodwood Cup

Johnny Murtagh continued his impressive record at Goodwood yesterday as 2-1 favourite Saddler`s Rock landed the Artemis Goodwood Cup.

The 42-year-old is now 10 victories from 21 rides on the world famous course, beating Askar Tau by a length with Colour Vision in third.

It was the ideal way for the horse trained by John Ox

The Jockey Club Launches Thoroughbred Placement Program

The Jockey Club Launches Thoroughbred Placement Program

On May 16 The Jockey Club announced the launch of Thoroughbred Connect, a free online service designed to assist with placement of Thoroughbreds following the conclusion of their racing or breeding careers.

A component of The Jockey Club's interactive registration, Thoroughbred Connect enables registry customers to express their willingn

Barry Brogan`s Amazing Grace captures Stakes

Barry Brogan`s Amazing Grace captures Stakes

AMAZING Grace, the only rose among the thorns, put to shame her male rivals to capture the RM70,000 Barobyn Racing All Grey Stakes, sponsored by Irishman Barry Brogan over 1400m (Race 5) in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Ridden by jockey Oscar Chavez, the five-year-old New Zealand mare by High Chaparral was slowly away, but quickly made up ground to be si

BHA Announce New Guidelines on Whip Usage

BHA Announce New Guidelines on Whip Usage

The British Horseracing Authority have released new guidelines over use of the whip during races, stewards will now be permitted to use their discretion on jockeys in breach rather than giving an automatic ban. The total amount of strikes allowed has not been changed but where the rules are broken ( 7 uses on flat and 8 uses on jumps )the stewards

Frankie Dettori excited by British Champions Day at Ascot

Frankie Dettori excited by British Champions Day at Ascot

Frankie Dettori says he is "excited" by Saturday's inaugural British Champions Day at Ascot and has urged the public not to miss the action. The Italian revealed he will race in all five championship races and says the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes which features Frankel will be the highlight. Dettori also said he is most looking forward to riding Opin

Irish Oaks: Epsom winner Dancing Rain aimed at double

Irish Oaks: Epsom winner Dancing Rain aimed at double

Epsom Oaks winner Dancing Rain and runner-up Wonder of Wonders are set to renew rivalry in the Irish Oaks at the Curragh on Sunday. The pair are among a field of nine for the race, which also includes 1,000 Guineas winner Blue Bunting. Together with Wonder of Wonders, Aidan O'Brien also saddles Gemstone and Amazing Beauty.

Jim Bolger run

Black Caviar graces cover of fashion magazine Vogue

Black Caviar graces cover of fashion magazine Vogue

For the first time in the history of Vogue magazine will show off a horse on the cover. The 22 games unbeaten Black Caviar is considered the best racehorse in the world and shines on the December issue of the Australian edition.

Top model Julia Nobis accompanies the mare on the front page. The two were photographed by Australian Benny Home

Sprinter Sacre To Step Up In Trip At Aintree

Sprinter Sacre To Step Up In Trip At Aintree

A step up in trip and a mouth watering potential clash with Cue Card and Flemenstar at Aintree may be on the cards for Spinter Sacre after his breeder Christophe Malse told trainer Nicky Henderson he was "mad" for restricting the superstar seven-year-old to two miles.

And Henderson agrees his stable star, unbeaten in eight starts over fen

Frankel set for first 2012 run in Newbury`s Lockinge Stakes

Frankel set for first 2012 run in Newbury`s Lockinge Stakes

Frankel glides to Queen Elizabeth II Stakes win (UK users only) Unbeaten Frankel looks set to open his 2012 campaign in the Lockinge Stakes at Newbury on 15 May. The colt, trained by Sir Henry Cecil and owned by Khalid Abdullah, was the first equine winner of the President's Award at the Horserace Writers and Photographers' Association Awards.

Unbeaten Frankel named 2011 Cartier horse of the year

Unbeaten Frankel named 2011 Cartier horse of the year

Frankel glides to QEII Stakes win at British Champions Day in October, The unbeaten Frankel has been named racehorse of the year at the Cartier Racing Awards. The three-year-old colt, owned and bred by Khalid Abdullah and trained by Sir Henry Cecil, has won all nine of his races to date.

Frankel's season included victories in the 2,000 Guine

Cheltenham Festival: Barry Geraghty rides 22-1 Punjabi to Champion Hurdle triumph

Cheltenham Festival: Barry Geraghty rides 22-1 Punjabi to Champion Hurdle triumph

Nicky Henderson saddled the winner of the Smurfit Kappa Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham, but it was not the horse most punters had been expecting. Henderson won the feature race on the first day with Punjabi, ridden by Barry Geraghty, at 22-1. In a titanic struggle to the line, Geraghty galvanised the courageous Punjabi to withstand the strong late r

Hatchfield Farm development was dismissed by Secretary of State

Hatchfield Farm development was dismissed by Secretary of State

Campaigners in Newmarket are celebrating after Lord Derby`s appeal over his planned Hatchfield Farm development was dismissed by Secretary of State Eric Pickles.

Racing bodies including Tattersalls, Darley, Godolphin and the Save Historic Newmarket Action Group have been fighting the plans to build 1,200 houses on a greenfield site since

















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