Thursday, January 21, 2021

Endurance: Pointless to Strengthen FEI Rules if Loophole isn’t Closed

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The UAE can still dodge FEI rules at headlining endurance races due to the cock-eyed definition of ‘Minor’ events.

Cuckson Report
By Pippa Cuckson | January 19, 2021

Well, that UAE suspension seemed over in a flash, didn’t it? It has been business as usual at the epicentre of winter endurance from January 1 ‒ the UAE is packing loads into the next three months, racing four days out of seven.

Its first feature 120km race of 2021, the Expo Cup CEN, saw the usual pitiful completion rate: 44 finishers, 87 vetgate eliminations and 11 of those mysterious “failures to complete” (FTCs.)

Riders were drawn from 24 nations for that opening meet which ran under national rules. All perfectly legit, because demanding endurance events can count as “national” even when they would be of Olympic standard, if endurance was an Olympic sport.

Worryingly, too, so far this year the longer races have not been livestreamed. There could be Covid-related reasons for standing down the camera crews (though no one else seems too worried about social distancing) but equally the wish to reduce public scrutiny may now seem preferable to ego-feeding...

Read more here:
https://horsesport.com/cuckson-report-1/pointless-strengthen-fei-rules-loophole-isnt-closed/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Safety+Vests+%7C+Endurance+Loophole+%7C+Bright+Futures+Medal+Series&utm_campaign=HS-Enewsletter2021-Wednesday-Jan+20&vgo_ee=pDmBh5FOsIwBMbVGZSaGqDpxdzkQNl9LgdxZ9pnzLRY%3D

Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Equestrian Adventuresses Podcast Ep 84: The Great Mongolian Ride

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by utetonia
January 15, 2021

On today’s episode Ute talks with Gabriella Schmidt-Corsitto, dental hygienist and horse lover from Switzerland. In July 2021 she will organise the Great Mongolian Ride, a charity ride crossing Mongolia from West to East and covering more than 3000 km in 10 weeks. She tells us all about how she arrived in Mongolia with her husband and founded her NGO Misheel Kids Foundation to help disadvantaged Mongolian children take care of their dental health and how she fell in love with the Mongolian horses and people and finally how she had the idea for her ride which is going to be the longest charity ride in history.

Listen:
https://equestrianadventuresses.com/2021/01/15/horse-podcast-ep-84-the-great-mongolian-ride/

Basha O’Reilly, adventurer and renowned Long Rider, dies at 73

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January 18, 2021
Neil Clarkson

Basha O’Reilly wasn’t born in the saddle, but it didn’t take her long to climb on a horse and begin a life filled with adventure and romance.

From the moment she climbed aboard her first pony, Mustard, she was destined to be an equestrian explorer.

Basha, who died in France on January 13 after a brief illness, found solace in the saddle, feeding what came to be an insatiable appetite to see the world on horseback.

Her obituary is not a notice about death. It is instead a lesson in love.

Born in Zurich, Switzerland in 1947, Barbara (Basha) Cornwall-Legh began riding at the age of five. She went on to ride at Olympic-level dressage, before being drawn to the adventures of equestrian travel.

After beginning her travels in Mongolia with Colonel John Blashford-Snell of the Scientific Expedition, in the summer of 1995 Basha visited the Russian Steppes.

There she fell in love with a blazing red Cossack stallion named Count Pompeii. That was the start of a 2500-mile expedition in which she beat off a would-be rapist and an attack by robbers...

Read more here:
https://www.horsetalk.co.nz/2021/01/18/basha-oreilly-adventurer-renowned-long-rider-dies/

Wednesday, January 13, 2021

Eurotunnel Price Hike Leaves UK Equestrians Reeling

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A $665 surcharge per horse catches the industry by surprise as Brexit takes effect and threatens to affect equestrian traffic both ways.

By: Pippa Cuckson | January 12, 2021

International riders in the UK are reeling at an unexpected consequence of Brexit ‒ a drastic price hike in Eurotunnel tickets for horses.

The Eurotunnel, also known as the Channel Tunnel or Chunnel, is a 50.45-km railway tunnel that runs beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover and is the only fixed link between the island of Great Britain and the European mainland.

Since January 1 the French-owned tunnel operator has imposed, without notice, a one-way £385 ($665 CAD) surcharge per horse, on top of the £400 ticket for the vehicle.

Last year was a transitory stage before the UK’s total withdrawal from the European Union, during which DEFRA ‒ the UK’s food and agriculture agency ‒ did an enormous amount of work to prepare horse transporters for the new documentation required by both their animals and vehicles at border control. However, many have been caught by surprise by Eurotunnel’s decision.

Henry Bullen, director of global transportation company Peden, understood the price increase was blamed on the cost of building a new inspection facility near the port at Calais. He hoped it would be swiftly reviewed...

Read more here:
https://horsesport.com/horse-news/eurotunnel-price-hike-leaves-uk-equestrians-reeling/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Walker+Loses+Appeal+%7C+Eurotunnel+Price+Hike+%7C+Ballard+Leading+Lady&utm_campaign=HS-Enewsletter2019-Wednesday-Jan+13+2021&vgo_ee=pDmBh5FOsIwBMbVGZSaGqDpxdzkQNl9LgdxZ9pnzLRY%3D

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Spain: «NOBBY» a Great Raid Horse has passed away

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January 12, 2021
Gabriel Gamiz
[google translate]

Today I get the sad news of the death of a great horse «NOBBY» the horse that together with María Álvarez , the Double World and European Champion , who together with «Nobby» won two World Championships, two European Championships, plus another bronze in Europe.

At 26 years of age, he has galloped to the eternal skies, with that great gallop that took him to the top of the great Champions...

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http://blogelraid.com/ha-fallecido-nobby-un-gran-caballo-de-raid/

Saturday, January 09, 2021

Bahrain: Al Enzi triumphs

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09 January 2021

Victorious Team rider Isa Al Enzi clinched the Shaikh Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa Endurance Championship, at the Bahrain International Endurance Village yesterday.

He won the 120km four-stage race, clocking 4 hours, 26 minutes and 1 second, followed by Sarhan Al Enzi, from Al Safinat Stables, with 4 hours, 52 minutes and 13 seconds.

Al Zaim rider Shahd Waleed finished third in the race and secured a spot on the podium, covering the distance in 4:53:35...

Read more here:
http://www.gdnonline.com/Details/912443

Friday, January 08, 2021

Polish cancer survivor all set for 120km Endurance race in Dubai tomorrow

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Equestrian athlete says riding horses is therapeutic for her

Published: January 08, 2021
Anjana Kumar, Staff Reporter

Dubai: A Polish expat living in Dubai is showing how cancer is not an excuse or an obstacle for anyone to pursue their passion.

Meet Anna Mirska-Perry, who turned an equestrian athlete after being diagnosed with skin and breast cancer.

If this were not enough, Anna is preparing for a 120km horse race on January 8, Saturday. It is the Expo 2021 Endurance Cup in Dubai International Endurance City. Needless to say, she has been preparing hard for it — riding a minimum three to four hours daily — this, despite her medical condition...

Read more here:
https://gulfnews.com/uae/watch-polish-cancer-survivor-all-set-for-120km-endurance-race-in-dubai-tomorrow-1.76335372

France’s Léa Clerissi is Riding High on Determination

FEI.org - Full Story 21 October 2025 Stacey Stearns The teenager is determined to learn from every experience... At just 15 years old...