More and more riders extend filling material used inside the hoof to the backside of the hoof, suggesting that this gives better protection. However, filling material is only allowed inside the hoof (FIPO 2.3.7), basically in the area between a sole and the hoof. When...
The Austrian rider Catherine Gratzl established with the eleven year old mare Blökk frá Kambi [IS2000287461] a new World Record in Pace Race 150m - P3 with a time of 13,47". The record was set on the World Championships 2011 grounds in St. Radegund, Austria and has...
The Education Seminar 2011 (after cancellation of the Hólar Seminar in August) will be held in conjunction with an open Equine Seminar in the Netherlands, last week of October. The theme of the ISES 2011 conference - Equitation Science, Principles and Practice - will...
Icelandic horse riders from three nations will ride from Brunnadern in Switzerland to St. Radegund, Austria. Everything is ready! Beginning of July the relay ride will start in Switzerland and more than 30 riders per day will ride to St. Radegund. On Friday, July 29,...
Sometimes equipment in sport doesn't fit in either the description of what is allowed or what is not allowed. In such cases the description of what is allowed prevails. Equipment not described as allowed is not allowed. At the moment there are four items that might...
As of April 1, 2011, new requirements are valid for World Records. The requirements include electronic time keeping and in P1-Pace Race 250 m and P3-Pace Race 150 m a camera at the finish line. This means that a new list of World Records is started for P1 and P3, as...
Slovenia is the first team that registered for the World Championships 2011 (deadline for registration is July 18, 2011). Details on the teams of each nations can be found on the FEIF website.
With less then 60 days to go FEIF President Jens Iversen and FEIF Director of Sport Marko Mazeland visited Islandpferde Reithof Piber, in St Radegund, Austria on June 3, 2011 for a last check on the preparations of the World Championships 2011. All preparations for...
The FEIF YouthCamp 2011 will be hosted by Icelandic Horse Society of Great Britain (IHSGB) and will take place in Broomlee Outdoor Centre, West Linton, Scotland (July 23-30, 2011). The FEIF YouthCamp now has got its own website: http://feifyouthcamp2011.ihsgb.co.uk/...
Unfortunately the FEIF seminar 2011 which was planned to take place in Hólar will be cancelled. The organisers in Hólar are still trying to find out if it could probably be postponed until a later date. Any information will be published immediately on the FEIF...
The WorldRanking Event at the Silver Maple Icelandic Horse Farm, Tunbridge VT, USA (June 18-19, 2011) has been cancelled as a WorldRanking event due to a lack of qualified judges. The event itself will contine to take place.
22 years after the first successful youth horse trekking tour took place in Denmark the tour is back in business again! Eva-Maria Gerlach wrote the following about the first tour: "The first FEIF Youth horse trekking took place in 1989 and started at the Danish...
On May 14, 2011 our Faroe member association Føroyskt Íslandsrossafelag will write history, by organising the first FEIF WorldRanking event ever on the Faroe Islands.The event will take place in Torshavn, the capital city. The event will be combined with a seminar and...
The FEIF Ranking 2011 has started, based upon the two best results per rider per test in WorldRanking events in 2011. Every year such a ranking is published (and updated daily) in addition to the FEIF WorldRanking. The FEIF WorldRanking is based upon the best 3...
10 Years after the first conference about software for sport competitions FEIF will organise a second conference about competition software for interested persons. The first conference in 2001 did bring us (free) IceTest and some other tools, like the FIPOTimer. The...
The lastest version of the Sport Judges' Guidelines (2011) has been published. The major changes are improved guidelines for judging pace on the oval track and more consequent punishment of rough or bad riding. The guidelines are not only instructive for judges: they...
Unfortunately the organisers of the Belgian WorldRanking event in Bornem near Antwerp, May 15, 2011, had to cancel the event due to a lack of participants.
The Sport Judges have adapted the guidelines for judging pace at the oval track during their recent seminar in St. Radegund. The main purpose of the changes in the pace guidelines are: - Put more emphasis on the quality of the transitions. Judges shouldn't forget to...