Tone Kolnes (N) stepped down as FEIF President, after a career of 25 years in FEIF, since 1999 as President. Because of her endless and uncompromised energy to support and to promote the Icelandic horse and FEIF, many people looked upon Tone as being Ms FEIF. To...
Fi Pugh (GB) stepped down as FEIF Secretary. Fi has fulfilled this position since 1991. Invisible for many persons, Fi was one of the backbones in the Board of FEIF. She also translated many texts from different languages into English. The board of FEIF awarded Fi...
Jens Füchtenschnieder established a new world record in SpeedPass (100 m) with the gelding Keimur frá Votmúla 1 (IS1995187605): 7.24", at the Mid European Championships in Terenten (IT), August 24-27. This is 0.11" faster then the previous world record by Anna...
At a meeting during the Mid European Championships 2006 the representatives of the countries present decided to organise the next Mid European Championships at the same location: Wiedenhof in Terenten (Süd Tirol, IT). Participants praised the high quality tracks, the...
200 Participants did participate in the 3rd edition of the Mid European Championships, August 24-27, 2006, in Terento (Süd Tirol, IT). The event was hosted by Jacqueline and Ewald Schmid. The Mid European Championhips are organised every two years, following the...
The World Championships for Icelandic Horses 2007 will take place August 6-12 in Oirschot (near Eindhoven) in the Netherlands. 25.000 visitors are expected to watch the performance of up to 200 horses and riders in different sport classes and breeding shows. The on...
The Eva-Maria Gerlach Award is a newly established bi-annual award for promising and versatile young riders. The award is named after the former Director of Youth Work Eva-Maria Gerlach, to acknowledge the fact that without Eva-Maria FEIF wouldn't have the FEIF...
The FEIF Feather Prize 2006 has been awarded at the YouthCup 2006 to the Swiss young rider Andrea Balz. The aim of this prize is to encourage good riding and good horsemanship, a tribute to feather light riding. The awarded rider sets an example to the Icelandic Horse...
Due to a major power outage in Amsterdam (NL), the FEIF website (and many other websites hosted in the Netherlands) has been out of reach for several hours on July 21.
The FEIF YouthCup 2006 took place July 15-23, 2006 in St Radegund (OÖ), Austria. 12 member associations of FEIF did send a team of youngsters. Five trainers did assist the participants in their preparations for the competition that took place during the second half of...
The FEIF Breeding Award 2006 has been awarded at Landsmót to the stallion Stáli frá Kjarri - IS1998187002, with an overall score of 8,76 (riding abilities: 9,09; conformation: 8,26). Stáli is sired by Galsi frá Sauðárkróki, mother Jónína frá Hala. Breeder is Helgi...
At the FEIF WorldRanking Event in Belm (DE), June 17-18, 2006, the Dutch rider Marjolein Strikkers with Erró frá Vallanesi - IS1990157570 achieved the extreme fast time of 7.26" in Pace Test PP1. This is 0.09" faster then the current World Record in SpeedPass 100 m...
FEIF President Tone Kolnes has been awarded with the golden pin of Landssamband Hestamannafélaga (LH), the greatest honour Icelandic horsemen can get. Read more at the FEIF Website.
Upon request of FEIF International Sport Judges the Sport Committee decided to add Myler Combination bits with long or short shanks to the list of prohibited equipment. This type of bit combines bitless techniques (hackamore) with a bit and is designed as a training...
The preliminary program for 4th International FEIF Instructor/Trainer Meeting, September 1-3rd, 2006, in Hólar (IS) is available on the FEIF Website.
DRIKS, our Slovenian member association, has signed the Education Matrix as 13th country. The matrix certifies the equivalence of similar training qualifications in different FEIF member associations. Qualifications gained in one participating FEIF member country are...
The Board of FEIF has published additional information about the procedures to register DNA Analysis and Bone Spavin in WorldFengur. More information can be found at the FEIF website: www.feif.org/news.
This year the FEIF Delegates' Assembly will be in Kristiansand, Norway on 16th - 17th September. The meeting will start on Saturday at 13:00 h with coffee, and end on Sunday at lunchtime. Each member association is represented by two delegates. The agenda, reports and...