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...
FIPO 2010 is available for download. A separate document is available as well with a list of changes. FIPO 2010 is valid for sport events starting on or after April 1, 2010, and will be valid until March 31, 2011. Major changes are: the weight of protective material...
Between April 23 and October 10, sport riders have a rich choice of 75 WorldRanking events in 10 diffferent countries: Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland and Austria. Included in the list are two prestigious...
12 Countries were represented at the Annual Sport Meeting 2010: Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Faroe Islands, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Switzerland, Austria and the United States of America. The meeting reelected Sigurður Sæmundsson (IS) and...
Important changes in FIPO will be valid as of April 1, 2010. For riders the most important changes are: - The allowed weight of protective material (boots) is limited from 300 g to 250 g per foot - Judges are allowed to distract up to 2.0 from a final mark in...
FIPO 2010 announces a change in Five Gait F1 and F2: starting 2014 these test are only allowed on 250 m tracks or combined oval tracks (P-tracks). The year 2014 is choosen to allow organisers to adapt their tracks. The reason for this change is that on shorter tracks...
A few places are still available for the FEIF seminar for sport judges, trainers and riding instructors at the moment. This means that also a limited number of Level 1 Trainers and Instructors can participate. The 1st International FEIF Seminar for International FEIF...
The 1st International FEIF Seminar for International FEIF Sport Judges, Trainers and Riding Instructors (level 2&3) will take place April 10-11, 2010 in Wurz (D) at Islandpferdereitschule Lipperthof. On Saturday the well known Gerd Heuschmann will be the main guest....
The World Championships for Icelandic Horses 2013 will take place in Berlin, capital of Germany. The Board of FEIF has honored the application made by our German member association IPZV. The venue is Karlshorst, a location used for other horse sports as well. Close to...
Riding on frozen lakes and streams has been a tradition in Iceland for many decades. In Berlin we will once again be honoring that tradition of our horses‘ homeland with icehorse 2010, the European Championships for Icelandic Horses, March 12-13, 2010. More...
The major item in the recent meeting of the Sport Committee (in a joint meeting with members of the sport judges committee) was the structure of our system of sport tests. At the moment, riders entering in tests like Tölt T8 or Four Gait V6 are judged the same way as...