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...
Important changes in FIPO will be valid as of April 1, 2010. For riders the most important changes are: - The allowed weight of protective material (boots) is limited from 300 g to 250 g per foot - Judges are allowed to distract up to 2.0 from a final mark in...
FIPO 2010 announces a change in Five Gait F1 and F2: starting 2014 these test are only allowed on 250 m tracks or combined oval tracks (P-tracks). The year 2014 is choosen to allow organisers to adapt their tracks. The reason for this change is that on shorter tracks...
After some years of discussion the proposal to change the breeding assessment traits of the breeding committee has passed the DA. So from this year on walk will be 4,0 % (1.5 before), flying pace 10% (before 9) and spirit will be lowered to 9 % from12,5 %. Besides the...
The FYCamp 2009 was a great success in the US and the USIHC announced this success has led to an increased amount of youth activities in the US. The next FYCamp in 2011 will be hosted by IHSGB. The FYCup 2010 will be arranged in Denmark, Kalö, 10th-18th of July....
The Education Leaders' Meeting at the FEIF Conference in Odense, DK was well attended with delegates from Denmark, Iceland, Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, USA, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, and Great Britain. Elections were held for three positions on the FEIF...
The online ticket sale for Landsmót 2010, held at Vindheimamelar in Skagafjörður June 27 - July 4, 2010, has started. The tickets are sold online only at http://www.landsmot.is/. It is a simple way to purchase your ticket and get a 20% discount of the full price at...
11 countries were represented at the chairmen's meeting, and reports were given and experiences exchanged between the representatives. Based upon proposals from the board of FEIF and the chairmen the following was decided: The chairmen recommended that FEIF starts a...