The use of the flash noseband or Mexican noseband in combination with bits with a curb chain or bits with upper and/or lower cheeks (leveler mechanism) has been added to the list of prohibited equipment. The decision was taken by the annual FEIF Sport meeting...
The new edition of FIPO (FIPO 2011) will include some changes decided upon by the Delegates' Assembly. The most important change is to rename Tölt T2 ('loose rein') in Tölt T4 and to introduce a new Tölt T2 where the riders are riding individually. This change will...
Riders planning to represent another country then the last World Championships they participated in should be aware of an important change in FIPO. A rider in any team must have the nationality of the country he/she is representing or have had his/her permanent...
The VRP International Pace Championship 2011 will take place in the weekend of October 1-3, 2011 in Zachow (D). Gestüt Schlossberg (Günter Weber) will host the event, as happend more often in the past.
All horses entered (in either breeding and/or sport) at the World Championships 2011 have to be registered in WorldFengur. The closing date is July 1, 2011, 12:00 CET. This means also that a valid FEIF Id number is required for every horse! The data on the horses?...
FEIF will organise a seminar for FEIF Licensed International Sport judges in the weekend of April 8 and 10, 2011, in St Radegund, Austria. The venue is the location of the World Championhips 2011. The seminar will be combined with a seminar for Word Championships...
Tore Haugslien from Norway, FEIF International Sport Judge, has passed away on January 15, 2011 in Thailand, his current country of residence. Tore was 67 years old. Many of us know Tore as an active judge with a strong opinion. He judged around 100 WorldRanking...
A lot of helping hands are needed to make the World Championships for Icelandic Horses 2011 an unforgetable experience. Construction work, planning of the camping site, or the organization of catering - our volunteers are around, wherever lots of work needs to be...
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...