The Nordic Championships for Icelandic horses will be held on August 7-12, 2018 at the beautiful competition grounds of Margaretehof in the south of Sweden, just outside the city of Kristianstad. Riders and horses from all the Nordic countries will meet and compete...
From August 9-12, 2018 the Mid European Championships will take place in St. Radegund, Austria at the competition grounds of Islandpferde Reithof Piber. The preparations for this high class sport event for individual riders and national teams are in full swing and the...
One of the largest events of the 'International Iceland horse family' in 2018 will be Landsmót in Reykjavik. The first Landsmót was held at the Thingvellir National Park in 1950, and has since then grown into the full bi-annual country festival that it is today. The...
This year's FEIF virtual 'Ride to Reykjavík' has reached the final home stretch. Having started off in August 2017, around 70 riders added up all ridden km to cover the distance from wherever home is to Landmót 2018 in Reykjavík. The first team Toon (town) Army from...
Owners of the Icelandic horse all over the world have been encouraged to organise an Open House day at their stables and share photos and videos of the day with the hashtag #horsesoficeland. You can be part of the fun and share your experiences with us as well,...
Both breeding horse trainer seminars 2018 took again place in Skeiðvellir, Iceland and 22 young participants between 18 and 30 years from eight FEIF member countries attended the popular seminars, for the first time split into level I and level II. Skeiðvellir again...
Preparations for the FEIF YouthCup in one of the big trotting centres of West Sweden are in full swing. A total of 15 countries have confirmed that they will be participating in the week-long event which consists of three days of training, a rest day exploring the...
Both sport support apps have been updated for the 2018 rules. The Guidelines app (https://appstore.com/dougsmith/guidelines) is a training tool for using the firewall system of the Sport Judges Guidelines. The Timer app (https://appstore.com/dougsmith/fipotimer)...
Landsmót hestamanna will be held 1-8 July 2018 in Reykjavík. Landsmót is all about the best Icelandic horses performing their talents Gaedingakeppni, tölt, pace and breeding shows. But Landsmót is also about meeting and making friends, enjoying riding, walking and...
More than 60 international and national sport judges attended the seminar in Rieden, the location of the World Championships 1999, that took place during the World Tölt event in Germany. Main focus of the seminar was on pace (practical judging and video analysis based...
The FEIF Breeding Judges had their bi-annual seminar at Hvanneyri, Iceland in March 2018 with 29 judges attending the seminar. The programme was very inspiring and included presentations by Eyjolfur Isolfsson and Gestur Páll Júlíusson. Furthermore the participants...
On March 25, a varied, top class FEIF Education/Trainer seminar, perfectly prepared and conducted by the motivated team around the head of the Equine Science Department Sveinn Ragnarsson and initiated by FEIF Director of Education Silke Feuchthofen ended in Hólar....
A new version of the sport judges' guideline has been released. It contains a guideline for pace in F3 and some minor alteration to other sections. In F3 the emphasis is put on the pace transitions rather than the length of the pace stretch. The guidelines 2018 will...
The General Rules and Regulations as well as the versions for breeding, education, sport and youth - all valid as of April 1, 2018 are now online and available for download on the FEIF website.
The sport judges' committee is a forum for counseling, communication and discussion and follows new developments in the area of sport judging. The committee is responsible for the contents of guidelines for sport judges, the sport judges seminars and develops...
All minutes of the FEIF conference 2018 in Stockholm, Sweden, are are now available on the FEIF website.
Recent changes in Sport Rules and Requirements require an update of IceTest. The update is available (version 1.1.795). Included is the new handling of PP2. As of April 1, 2018, the number of heats is reduced to 2, and the marks for time are no longer doubled. An...
In all areas of our work with the Icelandic horses we need reliable, enthusiastic and skilled volunteers. The question of how to recruit, to keep and to encourage volunteers was tackled during the FEIF conference 2018 in Stockholm, when all delegates participated in a...