NATEC in Lieu of Cancelled Pan Ams

Federation Equestrian International Pan American Endurance Championships slated for Millbrook cancelled; Cayuse Creek Ranch to host North American Team Endurance Challenge instead

By Mike Davies, Peterborough Examiner
Friday, June 26, 2015 8:43:56 EDT PM

An international equestrian event scheduled for a Millbrook area ranch in August has been cancelled.

Organizers are carrying on with another significant event on the same week. Earlier this month, the organizing committee for the 2015 Federation Equestrian International Pan American Endurance Championships announced they were cancelling due to a lack of entries from South America and Central America.

The event was to be hosted at Cayuse Creek Ranch, south of Millbrook, operated by Bob Coleman and Michelle Bignell. Rather than be downgraded by the FEI to a smaller event, Bignell said they opted to cancel. They are carrying on with plans to host the North American Team Endurance Challenge (NATEC) Aug. 21 which they were awarded in conjunction with the Pan Am event.

Bignell said they were “extremely” disappointed not to get the minimum three countries required for a continental championship...

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Reform in horse-sport: What changes will the FEI get over the line?

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Neil Clarkson | 28 June 2015

The big questions around horse-sport reform have been served up to national federations, as the FEI works to establish what changes might ultimately get some traction.

Reform questions dominated the FEI Sports Forum in Lausanne, Switzerland, late in April, with delegates from around the globe hearing the reasons behind the need for change, as well as some options offered up by the FEI’s technical committees in each of the disciplines.

The central aims revolve around making the disciplines more consistent, easier to understand, simpler, and more exciting as a spectacle...

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http://horsetalk.co.nz/2015/06/28/reform-horse-sport-changes-fei-over-line/#ixzz3eTVhYwyn

Great Britain: Country's best endurance riders battle it out at Boconnoc

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by Western Morning News | Posted: June 25, 2015

More than 200 endurance riders from all over the UK took part in the Boconnoc Estate Ride, which took place last weekend and organised by Endurance GB’s South West Group.

Held by kind permission of Mr and Mrs Fortescue of Boconnoc Estate, the prestigious two-day event is by far the largest staged in Devon and Cornwall and is fast becoming EGBSW's Flagship event...

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2015 Pan American Endurance Championship CEI 4* Cancelled

Horse-canada.com

June 24, 2015
by: Equine Canada

The 2015 Pan American Endurance Championship CEI 4*, which was planned for August 18, 2015 in Millbrook, ON, has been cancelled due to insufficient entries.

“All members of the organizing committee are disappointed that the Pan Am Endurance Championship had to be cancelled, as I’m sure are many others who had been planning and preparing for this special event,” said Bob Coleman, chair of the Pan American Endurance Championship Organizing Committee. “However, we understand the expense and other challenges South and Central American countries are faced with in terms of obtaining the necessary qualifications, travelling, leasing horses, etc.”

Coleman continued, “We wish to thank all those who helped in the planning stages for the event. And, on the bright side, the North American Endurance Team Challenge, to be held on August 21, promises to be an exciting event with some of the best equine and human athletes in North America competing.”

For more information on the FEI-sanctioned North American Endurance Team Challenge, click here.

Australia: Maher conquers Quilty Cup but won’t stop there

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24th Jun 2015 5:00 AM

Patrick Woods

What made you first start endurance riding?

My mother Jeanna Maher began endurance riding when I was eight and when I turned 12, I started competing on my mother's horse Ariel.

When I finished school at Gympie State High School, I started training horses at different stables in Kenilworth and Gympie for around six years before working in our family business Rushoz Endurance.

How many Quiltys have you entered?

I have been in six Quilty Cups. I finished ninth in the lightweight division in 2006; I didn't compete in 2008 and 2009; then in 2010, I decided to put weights in my saddle and came 10th at the Quilty as a middleweight.

I was first in the lightweight division at Kilkivan in 2013 and three of the horses in my team I had worked with at the stables - including training two of them - scored some of the fastest times overall.

At this year's Tom Quilty Cup in Hawkesbury I won the lightweight division for the second year running and was third overall on Atticus...

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http://www.gympietimes.com.au/news/maher-conquers-quilty-but-wont-stop-there/2683760/

Sheikh challenges standing of FEI’s strict liability principle in anti-doping cases

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Horsetalk.co.nz | 24 June 2015

The world’s highest court for sport-related cases has reduced the suspension imposed by the FEI Tribunal on Sheikh Hazza Bin Sultan Bin Zayed Al Nahyan over a positive test for a banned substance in an endurance horse he rode in Abu Dhabi early in 2012.

During the hearing, the sheikh’s legal team took issue with key elements of the FEI’s strict liability principle that holds the rider as the Person Responsible for any drug or medication infraction in a horse unless they can prove no fault or negligence. That has proved to be a very high bar to clear in cases that have gone before the FEI Tribunal.

The sheikh was appealing the FEI Tribunal decision from April 7 last year over what had been his winning ride on Glenmorgan in a CEI3* race at Al Wathba on February 11, 2012, after which the horse tested positive for propoxyphene and its metabolite norpropoxyphene...

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South African Endurance rider submitted to polygraph test in bid to clear name

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Horsetalk.co.nz | 24 June 2015

South African endurance rider Gillese De Villiers has received a six month suspension and a fine of 500 Swiss francs over her mount’s positive test for phenylbutazone and a related substance at the World Equestrian Games (WEG) in Normandy last year.

De Villiers’ submissions to the FEI Tribunal even included the results of a polygraph (lie detector) test.

De Villiers’ mount, Tra Flama, who vetted out at the second vet gate on the WEG endurance course, tested positive for phenylbutazone and its metabolite, oxyphenbutazone...

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