One of the founding fathers of the FEIF, Max Indermaur from Switzerland, has passed away at the age of 81 years. Max was one the five men who at Whitsun 1969 gathered in the living room of Walter Feldmann sen. in Aegidienberg to carry out Gunnar Bjarnason’s impossible...
A translated version of the current Icelandic rules for gæðingakeppni (including judges' guidelines) is available at the FEIF website: www.feif.org/service. These rules are valid for all gæðingakeppni competitions (FIPO 9.2). [Unfortunately this version has to be...
The FEIF YouthCup 2006 will take place July 15-23, 2006 in St. Radegund (OÖ), Austria. All FEIF member associations are entitled to send a team of youngsters. The invitation is available at the FEIF website: www.feif.org/service. The first registration has to take...
Our German member association IPZV is inviting to an international gæðingakeppni seminar and examination, April 3-5 in Aegidienberg (Walter Feldmann), Germany. The seminar is approved by FEIF and LH. The seminar will be conducted by instructors appointed by our...
A revised edition of the Sport Judges Guidelines has been published by FEIF. The guidelines are available for download from the FEIF website (www.feif.org/service). The changes are mainly of an editorial character. The wording of different phrases has been corrected...
Unfortunately article 2.2.2.1 (page 18) in the recently published version of FIPO contained a reference to the no longer existing rule about measurements of bits. The sentence was overlooked during the final editing of the text. A corrected version (6.6.1/2006) has...
A milestone for the education work within FEIF was reached at the FEIF Conference. Delegates from 12 member associations signed the contract concerning the FEIF-education matrix: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Netherlands, Norway,...
The first WorldRanking Event ever in Slovenia will take place September 23 and 24, 2006, in Krumperk near Ljubljana. It is a combination of the old Alpe-Adria Cup with the Slovene National Championships. More WorldRanking events can be found at...
During the FEIF Conference 2006, Bjarni Þorkelsson (IS) delivered a remarkable speech about the future of Breeding. In his speech he touches many subjects, among them the relation between breeding goals and demands made on competition horses in sport. Bjarni finds...
During the FEIF Conference 2006 the Board of FEIF could announce that no obstacles are in the way to grant the World Championships 2009 to our Swiss member association IPV CH. The World Championships 2009 will take place in Brunnadern/Neckertal, Switzerland.
During the FEIF Conference 2007, the board of our Dutch member association NSIJP and the board of FEIF signed the final contract to arrange the World Championships 2007. The World Championships will take place August 6-12, 2007 in Oirschot, near Eindhoven, in the...
Our Danish member association DI is inviting to an international gæðngakeppni seminar and examination, March 17-19 at Hedeland - Denmark. The seminar is approved by FEIF and LH. The seminar will be conducted in English by instructors appointed by our Icelandic member...
About 100 persons did attend the second FEIF Conference, Februari 10-12, 2005. Representants of 14 countries did discuss various items: Breeding and WorldFengur, World Championships in the future and the Education matrix. The participants took part in one or more...
Marlise Grimm (D) and Jens Iversen (DK) have been re-elected for a two years period as members of the Sport Committee. The other members are Michaela Aðalsteinsson (A), Lena Lennartsson (S) and Sigurður Sæmundsson (IS). Chairman is Marko Mazeland (FEIF Director of...
In an open letter to FEIF, two Swedish veterinarians (Gunilla Lundgren and Tomas Lundgren), draw the attention for the relatively high number of oral wounds that have been found during the veterinary checks at the World Championships 2005. They ask for a discussion in...
After many years of dedicated work within the youth committee Ben Tänzer (NL) decided to retire from the committee. Ben Tänzer was replaced in the committee by Peter Niess (youth leader in Austria). Lone Høst Jensen (DK) and Tanja Zabel (S) were reelected to the youth...
At the Annual Education Meeting which was a part of the FEIF conference 3 members of the Education Committee were for election. Herdis Reynisdóttir (IS) and Bert de Rooij (NL) were reelected. Erik Andersen (N) is a new member of the Education Committee.
At the Annual Education Meeting which was a part of the FEIF conference 3 members of the Education Committee were for election. Herdis Reynisdòttir (IS) and Bert de Rooij (NL) were reelected. Erik Andersen (N) is a new member of the Education Committee.