Two new members have been appointed in the Sport Judges Committee: Einar Ragnarsson and Eva Petersen. They have been proposed by the International Sport Judges. Einar and Eva replace Rune Svendsen and Markus Karrer, who stepped down.
At a meeting of the Executive Committee of Landsmót held in Skagafjörður on May 7th with the veterinarian of horse welfare, the decision was made to keep the preparation of Landsmót fully ongoing, despite the infectious cough that has been spreading out among the...
This brochure is for organizers of breeding shows as well as for judges and serves as a quick guide for how a breeding show works, what the main rules are, the criteria for the various marks and a few common working rules for judging and other procedures.
Unfortunately a part of article 2.3.1 about the length of a hoof has been left out when publishing the new edition of FIPO. The correct text is: The angle of the hoof must be in line with the pastern. The hoof length must be natural and not exceed 9.5 cm. Exceptions...
The International Breeding Show in Herning (DK) will be live on internet (streaming video). It will not be possible to replay the videos as they are all live. However some of the footage might be available on website of our Danish member association DI later on. Have...
There will be a live video transmission from the breeding show in Herning next weekend! To watch this transmition from Herning, please visit the following website: http://icehorse.camstreams.com/. Do not enter www in front of the address, as it will then not work. It...
So far no people or horses are affected because of the eruptions at Eyjafjallajökull. FEIF did receive many questions from the Icelandic horse community. Guðlaugur Antonsson, the breeding leader of Iceland, informed us April 18 that all horses are stabled or moved...
FEIF joined the newly established European Horse Network as one of the founding members. The aims of the network are to exchange views on political developments affecting the horse sector in Europe, to discuss and define common interests on the political agenda, to...
The Board of Svenska Islandshästförbundet (SIF) has notified the Board of FEIF that the ban of the rider Madelen Johanson has been lifted. The ban originally ended July 31, 2011. By consequence Madelen Johanson is allowed again to participate in any event (including...
A new release of IceTest is available, version 1.1.670. This version includes the changes in FIPO 2010. IceTest is the free software for sport competitions (including WorldRanking), provided by FEIF. It may be downloaded from www.feif.org/software .
100 participants can look back at a very succesful seminar for trainers, instructors and judges at the Lipperthof in Wurz (D). It was the first time FEIF organised a combined seminar and it proved to be a success. On Saturday, the well known German horse trainer,...
The pre-entry phase for the FEIF YouthCup 2010 in Kalö, Denmark, has started. The pre-entry forms with the number of participants that will be sent by the countries and also the number of interested youngsters on the waiting lists have to be returned by mid of April....
30 judges out of 32 FEIF International Breeding Judges participated!!! The bi-annual meeting of all active international breeding judges was arranged at the Agricultural University in Hvanneyri near Borganes, West Iceland. The main topics were hooves, judgment of...
The Sport Judges Guidelines 2010 are available for download. Apart from some small textual changes the major changes are a better description of deduction marks (like going behind the bit, going on more than two tracks, bent when on a straight line, predominantly...
The FEIF Conference 2010 decided to support the proposal from the Board of FEIF to establish the FEIF Task Force. The FEIF Task Force is a working group appointed by the Board of FEIF that will be responsible for updating the rules in FIRO, FIPO and FIZO. The goal is...
FIPO 2010 is available for download. A separate document is available as well with a list of changes. FIPO 2010 is valid for sport events starting on or after April 1, 2010, and will be valid until March 31, 2011. Major changes are: the weight of protective material...
Between April 23 and October 10, sport riders have a rich choice of 75 WorldRanking events in 10 diffferent countries: Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland and Austria. Included in the list are two prestigious...
12 Countries were represented at the Annual Sport Meeting 2010: Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Faroe Islands, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Switzerland, Austria and the United States of America. The meeting reelected Sigurður Sæmundsson (IS) and...