The current situation about a positive doping/medication test at the Mid European Championships in Wehrheim, Germany urges FEIF to review current rules. This case revealed a lack of authority and procedures in our current doping rules. This makes it impossible for...
2012 Was the year of Good and Harmonious Riding. To stress this, FEIF did ask judges to nominate riders for their fine riding style, independent of the marks given. More then 100 riders were nominated. FEIF wants to congratulate Nils Christian Larsen, Stian Pedersen,...
The Icelandic Food and Veterinary Authority (MAST) would like to convey the following information to all visitors that plan on riding horseback in Iceland: Importing used riding equipment and used riding gloves to Iceland is strictly prohibited. There are no...
Jens-Erik Majlund, Secretary General of the Danish Equestrian Federation, gave a presentation about ethics during the committee meetings 2012. He provided information how the topic is handled in FEI and the FEI-member countries.
The Education Committee continues to work very closely with the FEIF Task Force, which seeks to revise and restructure our various rule books. In the course of that work it became clear that there are significant discrepancies between the descriptions of the gaits in...
Gunnar Sturluson, Iceland, was appointed as Vice President of the FEIF Board. Gunnar is member of the Board of FEIF since February 2011. The FEIF Board meeting took took place during the weekend Oct. 26 - 28, 2012 in Malmö. At the same weekend the FEIF committee...
The website of IHBRANZ, the FEIF associate member association in New Zealand is now on the web, further pages and information will be added during the next weeks.
Former FEIF President Tone Kolnes has provided FEIF with a lot of historical documents, from the founding of FEIF in 1969 on. The first documents have been scanned and made available on the FEIF website: minutes of all Delegates' Assemblies. All other relevant...
Special shoeing practices are used in the Icelandic sport horses to enhance expressiveness and regularity of a gait. In order to establish a data base of the current shoeing situation among Icelandic competition horses the FEIF Delegates Assembly 2012 decided to...
'Landsmót' is the Icelandic name for the biannual National Horse Show of Iceland, organized in the even years. All of Iceland?s best horses and riders gather there to compete in various disciplines and breeding classes. It is an event like no other and the atmosphere...
The two years' ban of Leif Berg (FO) of February 2012 has been lifted by the Court of the Faroese National Sport Association. By consequence Leif Berg is allowed again to participate in any event (including sport and breeding), hosted or approved by any member...
The European Horse Network (EHN) has published a newsletter about recent activities, especially aimed at the European Parliament. The newsletter also contains information about activities in the horse world in general, including the Icelandic horse world. FEIF is one...
2012 is the Year of Good and Harmonious Riding. FEIF Judges at Breeding Shows and WorldRanking Events are requested to name riders because of their fine riding style, independent of marks given. These names are published on the FEIF website, as a reward for their...
An interesting video was made by Kari Baklund at the start of the FEIF Hoof Study at the FEIF Breeding Show in Herning in April 2012 . The video shows what the horses are going through during the 20 minutes which the hoof check takes. In the video veterinarian Sara...
The practical part of the FEIF Hoof Study organized by the University of Zürich, Vejle Equine Clinic and FEIF started at the breedingshow in Herning, April 19, 2012, where 30 horse were included. The owners and trainers of the horses that participated were very...
Three weeks after the successful FEIF Conference in Malmö, the FEIF Task Force met to evaluate the results of the conference and put the decisions into the existing second draft of the new rule book. Established in 2010, the Task Force is in charge to harmonize all...
The FEIF Delegates' Assembly 2012 elected two new members for the Board of Directors. Gundula Sharman is the new Director of Education. Ian Pugh stepped down after a membership of the Board for 4 years. Lone Høgholt was elected as Director of Leisure Riding. This...
Sigurbjörn Bárðarson was awarded with the FEIF Award for being an outstanding example of a rider who has been showing good and harmonious riding for many years.