The draft of the new FEIF Equipment manual, which was prepared by the equipment working group (Marlise Grimm (FEIF, Director of Breeding), Doug Smith (FEIF, Director of Sport), Johannes Hoyos (AT), Magnus Skulasson (SE), Mette Mannseth (IS), Rasmus Møller Jensen (DK),...
From October 24-26, 2014 the FEIF Committee Meetings took place in Malmö and all committees - breeding, breeding judges, education, leisure riding, sport, sport judges and youth - used the weekend for intensive work and preparations in their departments. The time was...
78 Riders were nominated in 2014 for Good and Harmonious Riding. The German rider Cristina Daniele was nominated most: by 9 International Sport Judges at 4 different WorldRanking events in Germany and at the Mid-European Championships in Switzerland. Laura Steffens...
The Sport and Sport Judges Committees met in Malmö to review the 2014 competition season and address a number of topics in preparation for the 2015 season and World Championships. The Sport Judging Guidelines were discussed extensively following their first full...
Education and information: Several activities are planned for 2015. The 2nd Open Breeders' Meeting will be held in Copenhagen, 17th of January, FEIF is offering qualifying seminars about the assessment of foals and young horses, one in Iceland and another one probably...
High on the agenda of the FEIF Youth Committee was the evaluation of the FEIF Youth Cup in Hólar, July 2014. This has been praised universally as a very successful Cup. Preparations for the 2015 FEIF Youth Camp in Berlar, Germany, are well under way. New ideas and...
Over the weekend in Malmö, at a joint meeting between the FEIF Education and Youth committees, the outline programme for the upcoming Education-Youth seminar 13-15 Nov 2015 was discussed. The focus of the seminar will be on teaching children and young people....
The education group had a very constructive meeting during the weekend with joint sessions with the sport committee/sport judges committee with main focus on judges' education and standards. The joint meeting with the youth committee focused on organizing the combined...
The Leisure Committee met to review the outcome of the survey launched during summer 2014 on the preferred characteristics of the Icelandic horse for leisure riding. As much as 3065 respondents have filled in the questionnaire and the data collected is quite...
The combined education-youth Seminar 2015 will take place in Switzerland, November 13 - 15, 2015 on Islandpferde-Gestüt Niederfeld, Hombrechtikon. Further Information will follow in due time.
The third FEIF App is available on the Apple App Store.... Speakers at FIPO competitions can use this App to keep track of the time for the riders to present each section of all FIPO tests. The App takes the test, section and number of riders and determines the time...
The last WorldRanking event of the season 2014 took place in Semriach, Austria on Oct 10-12, 2014. The registration for the WorldRanking events for 2015 will start soon. In 2014, 12 countries organised a total of 86 WorldRanking events and sent in the results, 7700...
Information - Communication - Cooperation! The FEIF Open Breeders' Meeting where a variety of important issues concerning the breeding work and policy within FEIF will be discussed will take place on January 17, 2015 in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is organised in...
The most important deadlines for countries participating in the World Championships 2015 in Denmark, August 2015 will be the following: Confirmation of participation has to be completed and submitted before March 13, 2015. Entry of teams (sport and breeding) by naming...
The Board of FEIF has been working with the Task Force on the new rule books for FEIF. A lot of work has been put into this project and the Task Force has done a great job. Version 5 of the new draft rules was sent out earlier this year to all the Member Association...
The new website for the World Championships is open and offering tickets and assistance with booking hotel room. Visit the website at http://vm15.com
The FEIF YouthCamp 2015 will be hosted by Germany and will take place in Berlar from June 28 - July 5, 2015 (www.reitschule-berger.de) . The goal of the FEIF Youth Camp is to bring youngsters with different nationalities together. The FEIF Youth Camp is arranged for...
The Danish rider Sys Pilegaard has been suspended by the Board of our Danish member association DI from all events due to a positive doping/medication test at a breeding show in Herning (DK), July 28-30, 2014. The rider is suspended for a period of 6 months, starting...