Reithof Neckertal, the venue of the Icelandic Horse World Championship 2009, has won the Toggenburger Innovation Award. This price is awarded every third year to economic businesses in the region of Toggenburg, Switzerland, which come up with new ideas, products...
The WorldRanking Event in Akureyri (Hlíðarholtsvöllur, Akureyri Opna Norðurlandamótið) is rescheduled to May 26-27, 2007.
Based upon an advise of the Welfare and Veterinary Committee the Board of FEIF has published revised rules for vaccination against equine influenza. These rules have been set in cooperation with a FEI approved veterinarian.
Due to a decision of the Board of BSIJP, the sport event in Bornem, Belgium (June 2-3, 2007), has been cancelled as a WordRanking event.
Six candidates (out of 16) did pass the test to become a FEIF Licensed International Sport Judge: Alexander Sgustav (AT), Åsa Eriksson (SE), Jacqueline Wahlström (SE), Sophie Kovac (AT), Will Covert (USA) and Sigurbjörn Viktorsson (IS). Will Covert is the first...
The first FEIF Breeding Show in Great Britain will take place from June 9th- 10th, 2007 at Hedge End Farm, Dorset.
During the succesful Sport Judges Seminar in Semriach (AT), hosted by Piet Hoyos and his team, the participants decided to re-establish the Sport Judges Committee, upon a proposal of Laura Pihkala-Posti (FI). This committee will present at the next seminar a plan for...
The Swedish Icelandic horse trainers/instructors are now listed in the trainers register of the FEIF Webpage. The new FEIF register of recognised trainers/instructors now includes in total 610 level 1 trainers, 286 level 2 trainers and 68 level 3 trainers.
IceTest 1.1 is available for download, a new release with a lot of improvements. This free software is usable for sport events of any size and is available in English, Danish, Dutch, German, Norwegian and Swedish. IceTest is the major tool for handling sport events in...
10 Countries have nominated 17 judges for the World Championships: Austria (Claus Haiden and Johannes Hoyos), Canada (Jens Krarup Nielsen), Denmark (Karin Hassing and Niciolai Thye), Finland (Ann Winter), Germany (Carsten Eckert and Eva Petersen), Iceland (Pétur...
All 18 member countries of FEIF will participate in the World Championships, August 6-12, 2007 in Oirschot (NL). The following teams are expected: Iceland, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Luxemburg,...
12 Countries will participate in the International Breeding Show at the World Championships 2007. The list includes Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland.
More then 60 national and international judges from 11 countries will take part in the Sport Judges' Seminar 2007 in Semriach (AT), April 13-15. 15 of them will try to pass the test to become a FEIF Licensed International Sport Judge. For the first time judges from...
The International Breeding Show in Deurne (NL), March 31 and April 1, 2007, has been cancelled due to a lack of sufficient participants.
At the successful Horses on Ice in Haarlem (NL), winning participants have drawn lots for the starting sequence of the countries per test at the World Championships 2007. This sequence determines the starting order in different tests: at World Championships the...
The FEIF youth award is a newly established award that goes to a country that has shown a great improvement in youth work during the last year. This year the award goes to Great Britain.
125 Events have been registered as WorldRanking Event for this year, an absolute record. In the past few years up to 100 events were registered. Germany leads with 42 events. Iceland follows with 17 events, then Sweden with 16 events, Denmark with 14, Austria with 9,...
The international FEIF seminar for instructors and trainers will take place at Kalø Landbrugsskole, Denmark, from January 18th to 20th, 2008. Detailed information and the programme will be published on the FEIF website as soon as possible.