Flowing manes, thundering hoofs en lots of Icelandic fire, that's what Horses on Ice, the European Championships on Ice, is like. It is being held March 19, 2011, on the artificial icerink Kennemerland in Haarlem (NL, close to Amsterdam Airport). More than 100...
Five more judges have been appointed for the World Championships 2011 in St Radegund (A): Åsa William (Eriksson), Bent Rune Skulevold, Florian Schneider, Nicolai Thye and Uschi Heller-Voigt. They have been appointed by a special committee (Einar Ragnarsson, Marko...
In the weekend of October 22-24, 2010, the last FEIF WorldRanking event of 2010 will take place in the USA. The venue is the Kentucky Icelandic Horse Show at Locust Hill Farm, Prospect, KY. In the weekend of October 15 and 16 the first WorldRanking Event in the USA in...
Ten countries have appointed a judge for the World Championships 2011 in Austria: Carina Heller, BE; Christian Reischauer, AT; Christoph Leibold, DE; Fi Pugh, GB; Hulda G. Geirsdóttir, IS; Jean-Paul Balz, CH; Jens Krarup Nielsen, DK; Laura Pihkala-Posti, FI; Lena...
The International Pace Championship 2010 got very good response. More riders than usual participated from many FEIF countries: Austria, Switzerland, France, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland and Germany. Some new ideas came up, like a Pace Cup, a...
15 Judges will be appointed to judge the World Championships 2011, in addition to chief judge Einar Ragnarsson and deputy chief judge Eva Petersen. All judges must have been FEIF licensed international sport judges for a period of at least one year prior to their...
The Board of FEIF appointed Einar Ragnarsson as Chief Judge and Eva Petersen as Deputy Chief Judge at the World Championships 2011 in St Radegund (A). They were proposed by the FEIF Sport Judges Committee. Both Einar and Eva have experience as judge at the World...
The International Pace Championships 2010 will be held at Basselthof, Isernhagen, near Hannover (D), from 15th to 19th of September. It wil be a combined event with FIZO Breeding Show, FIPO WorldRanking and a great focus on best pace riders and horses. All disciplines...
One candidate have been proposed to be Chief Judge and two as Deputy Chief Judge at the World Championships 2011 in St Radegund (A). The FEIF Sport Judges Committee proposed Einar Ragnarsson as Chief Judge and Eva Petersen as Deputy Chief Judge (based upon a survey...
Tómas Ragnarsson departed to a new world on the 16th of July 2010. He was only 44 years old and left us far too early after a hard fight with a vicious disease. Tómas, Tommi, was a remarkable personality with a strong and positive charisma. Wherever he went he made...
The Board of FEIF has started the procedure to appoint the Chief Judge and Deputy Chief Judge for the World Championships 2011 in St Radegund (A). Candidates may be proposed by member associations, the Sport Committee, the Sport Judges Committee and the Board of FEIF....
A new release of IceTest - the free software from FEIF for sport events - is available for download. Release 1.1.680 contains some improvements. Also some recently reported bugs are resolved. Current users of version 1.1.670 can choose to use a fast update, other...
The new rule in FIPO about the lenght of a hoof has caused some questions about the way to measure the length. A document has been published to explain the procedure: the length is determined by measuring the front of the hoof, in the center, from the skin line on the...
Two new members have been appointed in the Sport Judges Committee: Einar Ragnarsson and Eva Petersen. They have been proposed by the International Sport Judges. Einar and Eva replace Rune Svendsen and Markus Karrer, who stepped down.
Unfortunately a part of article 2.3.1 about the length of a hoof has been left out when publishing the new edition of FIPO. The correct text is: The angle of the hoof must be in line with the pastern. The hoof length must be natural and not exceed 9.5 cm. Exceptions...
A new release of IceTest is available, version 1.1.670. This version includes the changes in FIPO 2010. IceTest is the free software for sport competitions (including WorldRanking), provided by FEIF. It may be downloaded from www.feif.org/software .
100 participants can look back at a very succesful seminar for trainers, instructors and judges at the Lipperthof in Wurz (D). It was the first time FEIF organised a combined seminar and it proved to be a success. On Saturday, the well known German horse trainer,...
The Sport Judges Guidelines 2010 are available for download. Apart from some small textual changes the major changes are a better description of deduction marks (like going behind the bit, going on more than two tracks, bent when on a straight line, predominantly...