Registration now open for international judges, national judges and interested persons! The seminar will be held at the Sundabakki Islandshästar in Laholm, Sweden on Saturday and the Elite Hotel Plaza Marina, Helsingborg, on Sunday. The programme will include judging...
The invitation to the 14th FEIF YOUTH CUP is now online! Place: Münsingen Switzerland, Solfaxi Stables Date: July 13-20, 2024 The FEIF YouthCup is arranged every second year and consists of a week of intense training with respected instructors of international...
The European Horse Network (EHN) published a newsletter in January 2024 with an overview of current and future activities. The newsletter also reports on the EHN Webinar on workforce in the equine industry in November 2023. The workforce covers a total 400.000 full...
The following trainers/instructors were nominated by their national associations this time (in alphabetical order): Dana Hausherr (Switzerland), Emma Möller Ljungqvist (Sweden), Fia Bergman (Finland), Jacqueline Van Den Heuvel (Belgium), Jana Meyer (United States),...
The past year has been characterized by debates on horse welfare and the concept of Social License to Operate (SLO). The importance of the reputation of the Icelandic horse sport among the public cannot be denied and underestimated, the reputation is a prerequisite...
The Photo Competition 2023 is now over and we have received a total of 315 beautiful and creative photos from you. Thank you to every one of you who sent in one or more photos. It has been really difficult for the jury members to decide which photos should be included...
Join us in Southwest Sweden for an exciting weekend! The seminar will be held at the Sundabakki Islandshästar in Laholm, Sweden and in Helsingborg, and the programme includes as topics judging performances on the oval track, with special focus on the relationship...
Are you looking as much forward to Landsmót 2024? Next summer, Landsmót will be held in beautiful Víðidalur from July 1-7, 2024, where countryside and city meet in Reykjavík, organized by Hestamannafélagið Fákur and Sprettur, the two biggest horse clubs in Iceland! In...
In 2023, the WorldRanking event in Osterfingen, Switzerland ended the WorldRanking season 2023: 12 countries registered a total of 112 WorldRanking events, with 5037 horses and 19.923 results from preliminaries. https://www.feif.org/sport-dept/worldranking-statistics/...
A new documentary film was recently released by the Animal Welfare Foundation/Tierschutzbund Zürich, which recommends a ban on PMSG and informs on alternatives using hormone-free methods or synthetic preparations. Earlier this year, the Icelandic Ministry announced...
Representatives of FEIF met earlier this week with Carsten Eckert and Bernhard Fliß (OC of the World Championships 2019 and 2027) at Gut Matheshof in Rieden/Kreuth, Germany - a place that many might remember from the World Championships 1999. End of September 2023,...
As we are moving toward the end of 2023, this year’s fourth photo competition with the theme “Special Moments” is finished as well, which means it now time to vote again. Many wonderful photos of many special moments have been submitted and for the last time this...
There is unanimous agreement the World Championships 2023 were a great event, in a perfect area, well organised, welcoming and supported by very helpful and friendly volunteers. Unfortunately, there is also an unpleasant point which needs to be mentioned. During the...
As in the previous years, FEIF would again like to honour the “FEIF instructor/trainer of the Year“. It is up to each country to nominate one candidate per member association by December 15, 2023. All candidates have to fulfil the following requirements: a candidate...
As in previous years, the members of the Sports Committee and the Sports Judges Committee discussed most sport-related topics which were on the long agenda of the 1.5-day meeting together. Welfare of the horse-related items included the limitation of maximum starts...
The breeding committees used the opportunity in Frankfurt end of October to prepare the 2024 season, but also to discuss long-term developments in Icelandic horse breeding. A variety of proposals and discussion topics were prepared for the Delegates’ Assembly 2024 and...
Following a presentation to all participants on the “new” Leisure Riding department, with the vision of contributing to the global shift towards nature and well-being and embracing on the latest trends and aligning them with the Icelandic horse-riding ethos, the...