A new set of rules is available for users of IceTest. The rules apply to events starting on or after April 1, 2016. IceTest has been updated in 2015 to support the current gæðingakeppni rules.
Rules 2016 available for IceTest
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News Archive
Successful Joint Education and Sport Seminar in Sweden
The Education and Sport Judges spent a productive weekend in Arlanda, Sweden together with the Tölt in Harmony Foundation. The ranks of licensed trainers and judges for Tölt in Harmony were increased when all those attending were approved as licensed trainers and/or...
Horses of Iceland – Strategic Marketing and Promotion
Stakeholders in the Icelandic horse community developed a strategic marketing plan to increase the awareness, and strengthen the image of the Icelandic horse in international markets. The objective is to make more people aware of the good qualities of the Icelandic...
2016 FEIF International Sport Judge License Exam
FEIF will offer an examination for new International Sport Judges and candidates for national licenses. The examination will take place at the Fákur riding club (Reykjavík, Iceland) on September 17 - 18, 2016. The examination will consist of theoretical topics...
Responsible Equine Ownership
Members of the European Horse Network (EHN) did meet several Members of the European Parliament (MEP's) on March 2, 2016 to discuss initiatives to understand how guidance on responsible ownership can improve the health and welfare of equines. The British MEP Julie...
Australia – New FEIF associate member
The Icelandic Horse Association of Australia (IHAA) was formed in 2009 by a small group of Icelandic Horse owners and breeders. The aim was to form a group to facilitate the registration of the Australian bred Icelandic Horses and, to generally promote and protect the...
Vaccination Rules
FEIF follows the international standard for horse vaccination by including the FEI rules for vaccination in our rules. These rules apply to all international horse competitions. An "international horse competition" being any Icelandic horse competition where horses...
Annual Sport Meeting 2016
The Delegates Assembly adopted a total of 13 proposals from the Sport Department on a variety of topics ranging from some simple editorial changes to simplify repeated text to the final rule change resulting from the FEIF Hoof Study. The Sport Leaders reelected Vicky...
Annual Breeding Meeting 2016
The Breeding leader meeting decided to implement a 'positive list' with around 8000 horse names for Worldfengur and all other names must be applied for. A proposal of having the same requirements for new breeding judges will be sent to the DA 2017 as a change in the...
Annual Education Meeting 2016
The education department has had a successful meeting with very positive discussions and intensive exchange of information concerning educational topics of the representative participants. Karen Rasmussen DK and Bert de Rooij NL were re-elected as members of the FEIF...
Delegates’ Assembly 2016
13 out of 18 FEIF member countries participated in the Delegates' Assembly 2016 in Haarlem, Netherlands. The delegates unanimously elected Inge Kringeland from Norway as the new breeding Leader as Marlise Grimm did not stand for re-election. Silke Feuchthofen,...
Chairperson Meeting 2016
The chairpersons had a very good and productive meeting with intensive discussions on the finances of FEIF, the voting structure and the consequences for the member countries. The meeting agreed unanimously on a proposal to increase the fees by 15% that will be...
Annual YouthWork Meeting 2016
All participants of the FEIF youth meeting enjoyed a stimulating and creative set of meetings. The reports for the award 'FEIF Youth Country of the Year 2015' (won by Sweden - congratulations) and the oral reports from the countries, received during the meeting showed...
Annual Leisure Riding Meeting 2016
We are very happy to see the growing interest in the leisure riding committee. Not only were more countries present at the meeting, but based on the reports, many countries seem to have a growing interest to make things happen for their leisure riders. We exchanged...
Youth Country of the Year 2015
The annual award - FEIF Youth Country of the Year 2015 was given to Sweden. Not only does Sweden maintain a very varied and inclusive programme of events for children and teenagers, as do all of this year's very high quality entries, but it has taken the next step,...
Changes to the WorldRanking
The WorldRanking and international sport competition has grown to the point where it is now possible to rank the results for each test without combining the individual (T1, T2, V1, F1) and group tests (T3, T4, V2, F2). The current standings will be recalculated on...
Elections – Delegates Assembly 2016
Inge Kringeland, NO, was elected as FEIF Director of Breeding following Marlise Grimm. Silke Feuchthofen and Lone Hoeglund were re-elected for two more years. And two members of the Arbitration Council were elected: Jens Iversen, DK and Cosima König, DE.
FEIF Award 2016
Marlise Grimm received the FEIF Award at the FEIF Conference 2016. Marlise had been FEIF Director of Breeding for 8 years, she was active as trainer at FEIF YouthCups and a founding member of this FEIF event. Furthermore, she was a member of the FEIF sport committee...