Congratulations to Jens Schaaf, with his picture showing Lilly, Abbi and Naela on the beach, which perfectly illustrates for us what “Leisure Time” with an Icelandic horse looks like. We wish you lots of fun with your World Championships tickets and would like to...
News from Leisure Riding
May 1st – International Day of the Icelandic Horse
This day should be duly celebrated in the Icelandic horse world. As last year, the Leisure Committee has set itself the task of flooding the internet with pictures of our fantastic Icelandic horses in order to achieve broad visibility for the Icelandic horse. The...
FEIF Photo Competition 2025
The FEIF Leisure Riding Committee is organizing a photo competition with the theme "Leisure Time with your Icelandic Horse". The winner will win 2 week tickets for the World Championships 2025 in Birmenstorf. Send in your best photos showing how you spend your leisure...
Checklist “buying an icelandic horse”
Many years ago the FEIF Leisure Riding Committee developed the Horse - Rider - Profile to ensure a better matching of horse and rider. Now the Committee has set itself the task of transforming this profile into a practical and easy-to-use checklist to better meet the...
FEIF Leisure Riding country of the Year 2024
In 2024 – for the first time – FEIF honoured the “Leisure Country of the Year”! All FEIF member countries were invited to showcase their leisure work achievements and innovations. By submitting a short report, the participating leisure departments of the different...
Annual Leisure Riding meeting 2025
The participants of the FEIF Leisure Riding meeting 2025 worked on leisure initiatives for the year 2025. The day of the icelandic horse in particular worked very well last year, so the concept is taken up and developed. There will be a photo competition from all...
FEIF Leisure Country of the Year Award 2024
As in previous years, FEIF honors countries with outstanding projects in the various departments with the FEIF Awards. This year - for the first time – there will be a “Leisure Country of the Year" award! Countries can showcase their leisure work achievements and...
FEIF online meeting about developments in Horse Welfare and SLO in our member countries
Mid of November 2024, representatives from 11 FEIF member countries met online to discuss issues related to Horse Welfare and SLO as concerns the issues in their respective countries. It was a stimulating and informative meeting with lively contributions from all the...
Leisure Riding Committee Meeting 2024
The Leisure Riding Committee discussed a large number of topics at the FEIF Committee meetings in October 2024. It was decided, that here will be a "Leisure Riding Country of the Year" award handed out at the annual FEIF Conference. For the first time, it will be...
FEIF Virtual Ride ‘Bring on Birmenstorf’
2 months and 5000 km later the current FEIF Virtual ride is well and truly on the way. So far, riders from 12 different member countries have started to make their way to the site of next year’s World Championships which will be held in Switzerland. The concept is...
Bring on Birmenstorf – FEIF virtual ride 2025
The 13th FEIF Virtual Ride - from your home to the next World Championships in Birmenstorf - is now on the road … but there is plenty of space for more riders! Don't forget to join - find new friends and lots of fun: the friends you meet on Facebook, the fun you find...
FEIF Virtual Ride: To Fákur and Fast
With the beginning of Landsmót, the FEIF Virtual Ride "To Fákur and Fast" has come to an end. Last August, ca 80 riders from all over the world started to add up all kms spent in the saddle in an attempt to - virtually - reach Iceland, either as an individual or in...
May 1 – the international Day of the Icelandic Horse
As you know, May 1st is the international day of the Icelandic Horse. For this occasion, FEIF and Horses of Iceland have joined forces in order to reach a maximum of people and flood the internet with content of people doing all kinds of activities with Icelandic...
Annual Leisure Riding Meeting 2024
The group of enthusiastic participants of the FEIF Leisure Riding meeting 2024 worked on outlining and refining the strategic direction of the initiatives for the coming year. The Leisure Riding department can now embark a journey with a renewed focus on key...
Young Committee members 2024
Along with other candidates who were elected in the Delegates' Assembly 2024, three new young committee members will also start their 2-year position on FEIF committees: Jana Etzold (DE) will serve on the Leisure Riding committee, Marie Bruun Hansen (DK) on the Sport...
The photo competition 2023
The Photo Competition 2023 is now over and we have received a total of 315 beautiful and creative photos from you. Thank you to every one of you who sent in one or more photos. It has been really difficult for the jury members to decide which photos should be included...
Photo Competition 2023 „Special Moments“ – Vote now!
As we are moving toward the end of 2023, this year’s fourth photo competition with the theme “Special Moments” is finished as well, which means it now time to vote again. Many wonderful photos of many special moments have been submitted and for the last time this...
FEIF Leisure Riding committee meeting 2023
Following a presentation to all participants on the “new” Leisure Riding department, with the vision of contributing to the global shift towards nature and well-being and embracing on the latest trends and aligning them with the Icelandic horse-riding ethos, the...