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...
The new edition of FIRO (FIRO 2011) includes some minor corrections and revised rules for the FEIF Youth Cup. FIRO is the general rulebook for FEIF. Other rule books are FIZO (Breeding) and FIPO (Sport). The changes are valid as of April 1, 2011.
43 International Sport Judges from 10 countries can look back at a very succesful seminar in St Radegund (A), April 8-9. St Radegund is the venue of the 2011 World Championships and the place was the right choice for this seminar: excellent facilities, good horses and...
25 professional riders aged 20 to 26 years met at Skeiðvellir near Hella from March 31 to April 3, 2011. Every country could send up to three participants and twelve countries followed the invitation of the FEIF Breeding Department. The idea of the seminar was to...
The European Horse Network (EHN) did publish a leaflet about Horses in Europe. The aim of EHN is to promote the development of the horse sector in Europe and to act as a platform for the horse industry in relation to European institutions and media. The leaflet may be...
The Board of FEIF invites for applications to organise the World Championships 2015. A document describing Rules and Requirements for Organisers (n addtion to the rules in FIRO 2.1 and FIPO 10) is available from the download section (Sport) of this website. Any...
The use of the flash noseband or Mexican noseband in combination with bits with a curb chain or bits with upper and/or lower cheeks (leveler mechanism) has been added to the list of prohibited equipment. The decision was taken by the annual FEIF Sport meeting...
The FEIF international instructor/trainer seminar will be held at the Icelandic official equine centre of education and research at Holar University College on August 25-26, 2011. The seminar is open for all instructors/trainers according to the FEIF matrix (1-3), and...
Upon recommendation of the International Sport Judges two new members have been appointed in the Sport Judges Committee: Hulda G. Geirdóttir (IS) and Bent Rune Skulevold (DK). They replace Nicolai Thye (DK) and Uschi Heller-Voigt (CH). Þorgeir Guðlaugsson has been...
Riders planning to represent another country then the last World Championships they participated in should be aware of an important change in FIPO. A rider in any team must have the nationality of the country he/she is representing or have had his/her permanent...
The new edition of FIZO (FIZO 2011) includes some changes decided upon by the Delegates' Assembly. The changes will be valid as of April 1, 2011. A document with all changes and the new edition of FIZO is available on the FEIF website.
The new edition of FIPO (FIPO 2011, the rule book for sport events) includes some changes decided upon by the Delegates' Assembly. The most important change is to rename Tölt T2 ('loose rein') in Tölt T4 and to introduce a new Tölt T2 where the riders are riding...