The Austrian rider Petra Reiter-Tropper has been suspended by the Executive Board of our German member association IPZV from all events in Germany due to a (confirmed) positive doping/medication test at the Mid European Championhips, August 2012, in Germany, with her...
The Breeders' Forum at the World Championships for Icelandic horses in Berlin, August 4-11, 2013 offers a unique overview of worldwide Icelandic horse breeding. Posters of highly evaluated breeding horses, presentation of results, pictures and films, meeting point and...
A corrected version of FIPO 2013 is available for download. Unfortunately the requirement to show all sections in the finals of Tölt T1 on both reins has dropped out of the previous release (page 32). This has been corrected. The relevant page is available for...
About 50 International Sport Judges from Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland and Austria attended the International Sport Judges Seminar in Berlin (April 5-6, 2013). The main item was practical judging (and...
WorldFengur's Annual Report 2012 has been published on the WF website and is now available to everyone interested. The report contains information on the main projects that were completed and several statistics on foals and assessed horses, export figures, development...
The fifth edition of Horses on Ice on the 400 m skating rink in Haarlem (NL) was again a great succes. The participants competed on ice in a well organised competition. Despite the ice cold temperature the enthousiam of the public was heart-warming. The new European...
The Education Seminar 2013 will take place in Stockholm, September 6-8, 2013. A number of proficient and well known instructors, among them Mette Manseth, Stian Pedersen and Magnus Skulason will demonstrate how they work, which teaching techniques they use and will...
The education seminar 2013 will be organised in co-operation with the Swedish member organisation Svenska Islandshästförbundet (SIF) at Stockholm, September 7-9, 2013. Among a large number of different topics that will be up for discussion, various proficient and well...
Stud farm presentations at the World Championships 2013 During the World Championships 2013, a presentation of studs is planned for Friday, August 9th, 2013. The deadline for registration has been extended till April 25, 2013. Details on registration and the selection...
FEIF - together with IPZV and LH/Landsmót - is this week present in the Icelandic "village" at the Equitana in Essen, Germany, the big horse fair with 200,000 guests and about 860 exhibitors. With the guiding theme Passion.Power.Pleasure the work and activities of...
98 WorldRanking events were registered by the FEIF member associations for the year 2013 so far and all are listed on the FEIF website. FEIF started the WorldRanking in 1995 and it is a continuous system: every day a new ranking list is computed. The riders' position...
The phase of late entries for the last part of the relay ride - the ride through Brandenburg Gate - has now started. If you are interested, please register with the forms provided on the IPZV website and you will receive a confirmation as soon as there are any...
A new set of FIPO rules is available for users of IceTest. The rules apply to events starting at or after April 1, 2013. With this release is is possible to enter the times of both heats in Flag Race FR1.
The new edition of FIPO contains changes decided upon by the Delegates' Assembly 2013. To follow the same line in finals in Tölt classes and in gaited classes it is decided to change FIPO in such way, that the sequence of gaits in finals in four gait and five gait is...
The results of the B-sample of the doping test from the Mid EUropean Championships 2012 are now available: The Institute for Biochemistry of the German Sporthochschule in Köln in presence of a representative of the rider opened the sealed sample, which had been taken...
The making and the maintenance of the sport judges' guidelines is one of the designated tasks of the FEIF Sport Judges Committee. As our sport is constantly developing the guidelines needs to b e adjusted regularly. Once in a while, when the many adjustments have...
The revised FEIF Instructor & Trainer Matrix, launched by the FEIF Education Committee, now also includes the list of skills it takes to become a young-horse trainer. Every instructor or trainer at level 1-3 who has gained a qualification in one of the FEIF member...
The annual meeting for Sport discussed a long list of items. One of the main items is an experiment that will take place in 2013 in Tölt T3, where the judges will only judge one side of the oval track in the second section and the riders will be asked by the speaker...