Yessin Rahmouni, a dressage rider from Morocco who trains with Anky van Grunsven, has qualifed to compete in the 2012 Olympics. This ensures that Africa will now have representation in dressage competition. He qualified with help from Floresco NRW, which had previously been a partner of Sweden’s Patrik Kittel. Foresco is an Olympic veteran. Kittel [...] Continue reading →

Young German rider Kristina Sprehe, 25, took on a field of veteran competitors in Dortmund, Germany and rode away with a big Grand Prix win with her partner Desperados (by De Niro x Wolkenstein II), an 11-year-old Hannoverian stallion. All five judges gave her first place in the Meggle Grand Prix Special, which put her [...] Continue reading →

(USPEA by Lindsay McCall) – Del Mar, CA – Day two of the 2012 Rancho Valencia Dressage Affaire CPEDI3* at the Del Mar Horse Park concluded with impressive results from the Para-Dressage competition. Multiple horse and rider combinations built upon yesterday’s scores earning top results under FEI ground jury Hanneke Gerritsen 5* (NED), Marco Orsini [...] Continue reading →

(British Dressage) – The first 2012 Premier League show is underway at Myerscough College near Preston, Lancashire with Melissa Chapman, Stacey Munson and Becky Moody already winners after the first day of competition. Running 8 – 11 March, the show continues today with a mammoth eight-hour Prix St Georges and with names like Anna Ross Davies, [...] Continue reading →

(British Dressage) – It is with great sadness that we announce that Mike West passed away peacefully on Tuesday 6 March, after a five year fight against multiple myeloma, a bone marrow cancer. Mike was one of dressage’s leading commentators and also a long-time friend of British Dressage. He was involved in many of our [...] Continue reading →

(FEI) – The Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI), the world governing body for horse sport, is calling on equestrian enthusiasts and designers of all ages around the world to enter its online competition to create new “pictograms” for its disciplines. The competition, launched today on FEI Facebook and www.fei.org, is open until midnight on 19 April [...] Continue reading →

Top Dutch dressage rider Anky van Grunsven has canceled plans to compete in this weekend’s Signal Iduna Cup in Germany and has put a lock down on her stables. She reported the information on her website and said it was due to the presence of Rhinovirus in her stable. Van Grunsven said it means no [...] Continue reading →