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Tuesday, March 23, 2021

Endurance GB Confirms International FEI Ride Programme for 2021

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21/03/2021 News Team

• Four venues currently set to host nine days of FEI competition subject to Covid measures
• Hunt is on for fresh location for the Endurance GB Inter Regional Championships after local Forestry England Covid-19 restrictions force cancellation of King’s Forest Summer, previously planned as a selection ride for the European Championships

Endurance GB has confirmed four venues so far are set to host nine days of International FEI sport in England this summer. The FEI classes are currently planned for Euston Park 3*, Royal Windsor 2*, Revesby Park 3* and Lavenham 2*. A further venue, the popular King’s Summer event in Thetford Forest, Suffolk, scheduled to take place on 18-19 June has been cancelled after confirmation on Friday by the Thetford and Sandlings Forestry England Region that it would not be able to accommodate event bookings this summer due to pressures on the area as the country emerges from lockdown.

The Royal Windsor Ride is the first confirmed date for the resumption of international endurance which organisers H Power have announced will take place on the Friday 2nd July from its usual home in Windsor Great Park...

UAE: Sheikh Mohammed Cup headlines four-day Dubai Endurance festival

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21 March 2021

The four-day His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Endurance, Festival, the top highlight of the UAE Endurance Calendar, will be held from Tuesday to Friday.

Topping the programme is the prestigious His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Endurance Cup, which draws participation from top local and international endurance riders. Together the festival is a celebration of the sport’s most eminent supporter, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai.

The main ride, the Sheikh Mohammed Endurance Cup is held over 160km and will be held at the Dubai International Endurance City (DIEC). The event is an annual tribute to the extraordinary impact Sheikh Mohammed has had on the sport of endurance riding and global equestrian sport...

Saturday, March 20, 2021

Bahrain: Al Hashemi wins thrilling contest

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GDN Online Desk
Sat, 20 Mar 2021

Al Raud Stable’s Mohammed Abdulhamid Al Hashemi won the Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa Endurance Cup after an exciting race at the Bahrain International Endurance Village yesterday.

The champion clocked 4 hours, 47 minutes and 23 seconds in the 120-kilometre event. He was followed by Victorious’ Isa Al Enzi (4.47.30) and Al Zaim Sultan Al Romaihi (4.54.40)...

Wednesday, March 17, 2021

17 Sport Horses Now Dead in Spanish Herpes Crisis

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Further casualties include 5 aborted foals; hundreds more horses blocked from competing as a third Spanish venue is linked with cases.

By: Pippa Cuckson | March 17, 2021

Seventeen horses are now confirmed dead in relation to the outbreak of the aggressive neurological form of Equine Herpesvirus (EHV-1) at jumping tours in Spain.

The latest deaths include a newborn foal in Germany at stables where two horses recently returned from Spain have also died and where five mares have aborted foals. In Belgium, two more jumping horses have died.

Cases associated with a third Spanish tour have led to the FEI blocking 856 more horses from competing. This is the Mediterranean Equestrian Tour (MET) in Oliva, just a few miles from Valencia where the outbreak was first reported...

Tuesday, March 16, 2021

Bahrain: Stage set for endurance championship

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16 March 2021

The three-day Nasser Bin Hamad Endurance Championship will begin tomorrow at the Bahrain International Endurance Village.

His Majesty King Hamad’s representative for humanitarian work and youth affairs Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa and Bahrain Royal Equestrian and Endurance Federation (Breef) will patronise the competition.

The championship includes a 40km qualifying race, and three other races covering 80, 100 and 120km...

Monday, March 15, 2021

Australia: Vets urge horses, owners to get Hendra virus vaccine as new strain identified

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March 11 2021
By Bridget Murphy

Equine vets are urging horse breeders and owners to vaccinate against Hendra virus, following the discovery of a new strain of the deadly virus by Australian researchers.

The research project, titled Horses as Sentinels, has linked the new strain, found in a flying fox in Adelaide, to a previously unexplained death of a horse in an undisclosed area of Australia in 2015.

Peter Reid, a veterinary scientist with the Australian Veterinary Association [AVA], said that breeds of flying foxes that had not been known to transmit Hendra virus in the past could be carrying the new strain in areas previously deemed as low risk.

These areas include parts of New South Wales, Victoria and southern Australia, where grey-headed flying foxes are found.

Hendra virus, which was first recorded in Australia in 1994, can infect both humans and horses...

Sunday, March 14, 2021

Longines FEI Endurance World Championship 2021 organiser studying the possible necessity to adapt the health safety protocols

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5th March 2021

Pisa, San Rossore, Italy. Friday 5 March 2021.

The Longines FEI Endurance World Championship 2021, scheduled in Pisa San Rossore – ITALY on 22 May, wants to be stronger not only regarding the Covid-19 pandemic – for which the Organizing Committee is preparing a detailed safety protocol to best guarantee the attending NFs teams – but also regarding the recent spread of Equine Rhinopneumonitis (Ehv-1) which has led the International Equestrian Federation to suspend international events in France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Italy, Austria, Poland, Netherland, Germany and Slovakia until March 28, 2021.

The organizing committee of the Longines FEI Endurance World Championship 2021, in steady coordination with the International Equestrian Federation and the Italian Equestrian Federation, is following the evolution of the case and studying the possible necessity to adapt the health safety protocols. These actions go hand in hand with setting up the organization of the event in the name of maximum safety...