Great Britain: Disabled riders show endurance

Hastingsobserver.co.uk - Full Article

ANDY HEMSLEY
July 4 2018

Riders from Fairlight Hall Riding for the Disabled Group competed at the RDA’s South East Region’s sixth annual Endurance Ride.

The event enjoyed splendid sunshine and saw 1km, 2km and 3km rides on paths and tracks across the gorgeous setting of fields and woodland on Underriver Farm near Sevenoaks, courtesy of Sophie and Charles Honnywill.

Joanna Sale, from Riding for the Disabled, said: “Feedback from the day was very positive, particularly given the wonderful Kent countryside that the riders were able to appreciate at its best..."

Read more at: https://www.hastingsobserver.co.uk/news/disabled-riders-show-endurance-1-8555743

Australia: WEG Endurance Team Announcement

Equestrian.org.au

July 5 2018

Equestrian Australia (EA) is pleased to announce its Team for Endurance at the FEI World Equestrian Games™ Tryon 2018, in the USA.

Australian Endurance legend Penny Toft heads the list of athletes, and, remarkably, it will be the fifth occasion that she has represented Australia at an FEI World Equestrian Games.

“I am honoured to represent Australia at what will be my fifth World Equestrian Games. I have never been more ready for this big event,” said Toft.

“I am also especially proud of the fact that I will be competing on one of our home-bred horses, Dream Dancer te.”

The selected team is:

Penny Toft and Dream Dancer te
Naomi O’Shaughnessy and Castlebar Party Girl
Jodie Salinas and FLF Go Flight Leader
Stella Harbison and Magical Mikada
Reserve:

Samantha Jones and Wallace Hill Sundance
Congratulations to both riders and horses, we wish them the best of luck.

Horse of the Month: Nobby

FEI.org Stories - Full Article

July 3 2018

In our latest Horse of the Month feature, we get to know more about this WEG Endurance legend...

Nobby and his rider Maria Mercedes Alvarez Ponton are the most successful Endurance partnership of all time.

They are the only horse and rider combination to ever have held World and European titles simultaneously.

In 2008, Nobby won the World Endurance Championship in Malaysia, and then In 2009, he won the European Endurance Championship in Italy. Nobby then went one to win the World Equestrian Games Endurance title in the USA in 2010.

This impressive horse then won his fourth major title in a row in 2011 when defending his European title in France...

Read more here:
https://www.fei.org/stories/horse-month-nobby

FEI WEG 2018: Preparations in Full Swing

FEI.org - Full Article

27 June 2018

How Mark Bellissimo's dreams are becoming a reality at Tryon International Equestrian Center ahead of FEI WEG 2018...

It’s one of sport’s great events and it’s now just over two months away… yes, the FEI World Equestrian Games™ (WEG) is getting ever closer.

For those who can’t quite wait until WEG gets under way on September 11 to see the magnificent Tryon International Equestrian Center (TIEC) in all its glory, the Equestrian World cameras recently visited the venue for the successful test events.

Equestrian World also caught up with American tycoon and TIEC chief executive Mark Bellissimo, whose vision of creating one of the world’s leading equestrian centres will be realised when the sport’s stars travel to North Carolina in September...

Read more here:
https://www.fei.org/stories/weg-2018-preparations

IVEC II: Veterinary Endurance Conference close to WEG

IVEC.info

International Veterinary Endurance Conference taking place September 9, three days before the WEG endurance competition and only 30 minutes drive away from the WEG venue. Veterinarians and endurance professionals are invited to join the conference. Tickets will be available from August 1st at a price of $175 including lunch. Accommodation packages are also available.

Please click on "interested" on this facebook event to be kept up to date and share this invite with anyone else who might like to join the conference.

The first IVEC conference, two years ago at the World Endurance Championships in Slovakia, was attended by more than 80 professionals. This year's IVEC will have some of the foremost experts in endurance veterinary science discuss the latest scientific research. Topics include treatment during competition, pre-purchase exams, genetics, doping, ride strategy and much more.

For more information:
Monica Mira monicamira@alequine.com
Shanti Roos shantiroos@hotmail.com

http://ivec.info/

Lorie Duff to Represent Canada in the Gobi Desert Cup

Horse-canada.com - Full Article

June 28, 2018
by: The Gobi Desert Cup

Lorie Duff of Lorie Duff Horsemanship has been invited to represent Team Canada for The Gobi Desert Cup in Mongolia August 22-31. Born and raised in Newfoundland, Duff is a professional horsemanship coach and trainer now based at Liberty Lane Farm in Ottawa, Ontario.

Duff was the first western performer at the RCMP sunset ceremonies in Ottawa to showcase Liberty Horsemanship. She has been a featured demonstrator at the Can-Am Horse Expo; a guest performer at the Calgary Stampede; and recipient of the NEA Showmanship and NEA Sportsmanship Award...

Read more here:
https://horse-canada.com/horse-news/lorie-duff-gobi-desert-cup/

South Africa: Fauresmith prepares for toughest endurance race

OFM.co.za

JOSCA HUMAN
11:32 Fri, 29 Jun 2018

People are making their way to Fauresmith in the Free State for one of the toughest endurance races of its kind.

Known as the Fauresmith International Endurance Race, over 500 riders and their horses enter each year, coming from all over the equestrian world. President of the Free State Endurance Ride Association of South Africa, Ronell Coetzer, says the distance of the race is 200 kilometres.

“Most of the people are going tomorrow. However, the race starts on Tuesday. It’s a 200 km race done over three days,” says Coetzer.

Coetzer says the riders and their horses will race for 75km on Tuesday, 75km on Wednesday and 50km on Thursday. She says they are expecting over 3000 people to attend this event, and most guest houses in the town have already been fully booked.