The World Championships for Icelandic Horses 2013 will take place in Berlin, capital of Germany. The Board of FEIF has honored the application made by our German member association IPZV. The venue is Karlshorst, a location used for other horse sports as well. Close to...
Riding on frozen lakes and streams has been a tradition in Iceland for many decades. In Berlin we will once again be honoring that tradition of our horses‘ homeland with icehorse 2010, the European Championships for Icelandic Horses, March 12-13, 2010. More...
The WorldCUP 2010 take place February 18-20, 2010 in Odense, Denmark at the same place and time as the annual FEIF Conference. The WorldCUP 2010 is a private organized event supported by FEIF and our Danish member assocaition DI. During the WorldCUP, the spectators...
The major item in the recent meeting of the Sport Committee (in a joint meeting with members of the sport judges committee) was the structure of our system of sport tests. At the moment, riders entering in tests like Tölt T8 or Four Gait V6 are judged the same way as...
At the joint breeding committee and breeding judges committee meeting in Haarlem, NL, the past breeding year was shortly reviewed, including the great World Championships 2009. The new time schedule proofed to be perfect for the breeding shows and never before had so...
The FYCamp 2009, hosted by the USIHC, was discussed and briefly evaluated. The overall impression was a very positive one, with good organization, good location, good staff, good programme, and good fun for everyone. Preparations for the FYCup 2010 at Kalö...
The FEIF Education Committee held some good discussions during the super-committee weekend at Haarlem, NL. Topics included cooperation, the FEIF Education Matrix list of instructors, creation of the FITO: Education department equivalent to FIPO and FIZO, and potential...
Up until now the FEIF committees arranged their separate meetings and got on with their work. This time the FEIF Board arranged for all committees to meet in the same place at the same time, namely in Haarlem, Netherlands. The advantage of this is that it is so much...
In 2010 the FEIF Delegates' Assembly and the FEIF Conference will take place February 19-21 in Odense, Denmark. It will be held at the same time as the WorldCup 2010 . The meetings will therefore take place at Odense Congress Center (http://www.occ.dk/). For more...
Once more, sport with Icelandic horses has shown to be a clean horse sport. All 20 doping tests taken at the World Championships 2009 in Brunnadern (CH) proved to be negative, which means: no doping. In total around 160 horses participated. The procedures followed...
A new release of IceTest, the free competition software of FEIF, is available. Upon request of users the number of judges in oval track classes is made changable between preliminary rounds and finals. There was also a request to make it possible to correct the number...
After a very successful judges' seminar at Vindhólar (Stapelfeld, D) 9 candidates (out of 15) did pass the test to become an International Sport Judge. FEIF congratulates Andreas Windsio (D), Birgit Quasnitschka (D), Caro Klein (D), Hendrik Gepp (D), Jean-Paul Balz...
The Scottish Icelandic Horse Association (SIHA) has closed its studbook and notified the Scottish government that its Passport Issuing Organisation status is being relinquished and the legal entity is being wound up. The management of the existing SIHA passports has...
22 participants have registered for the open seminar for Sport Judges, at Vindholar near Hamburg in Germany, September 19 and 20. 17 Of them will also take the test to become a FEIF licensed international sport judge or a judge at a national level. Candidates come...
Our Icelandic member association LH organises two seminars about gæðingakeppni, one in Latovainio, Finland, September 17-21 and one in Norrköping, Sweden, September 24-26. The seminars are open for all interested persons.
The hospitality and professionality of the Swiss organisers, the hundreds of helpers, including the inhabitants of Brunnadern, made the World Championships to an unforgettable event. An event to be proud of. Even two days with heavy rains couldn't spoil this. On the...
4 gold medals for Iceland, 2 for Norway, 1 for Denmark, 1 for Germany, 1 for Sweden: Tölt T1 - Jóhann R. Skúlason - Hvinur frá Holtsmúla 1 [IS1997186699] - Iceland; Tölt T2 - Tina Kalmo Pedersen - Kolgrimur från Slätterne [SE1997107496] - Norway; Four Gait V1 - Lena...
The complete result lists of the sport classes at the World Championships 2009 in Brunnadern (CH) are available for download from the FEIF website.