FEIF will organise a seminar for FEIF Licensed International Sport judges in the weekend of April 8 and 10, 2011, in St Radegund, Austria. The venue is the location of the World Championhips 2011. The seminar will be combined with a seminar for Word Championships...
In 2010 a Task Force was set up to review and adapt the rules in FIRO (General), FIPO (Sport), FIZO (Breeding), Gædingakeppni and to establish a FIEO (Education) during the period 2010 - 2013. The FEIF TaskForce process is now in its second year. The input of many...
The seminar addresses riders aged 18 to 26 who train and present breeding horses in a professional way and who are interested in further education and training and in an exchange of experiences. The seminar will take place March 31 until April 3, 2011 in Iceland at...
Tore Haugslien from Norway, FEIF International Sport Judge, has passed away on January 15, 2011 in Thailand, his current country of residence. Tore was 67 years old. Many of us know Tore as an active judge with a strong opinion. He judged around 100 WorldRanking...
Always wondered how many Icelandic horse lovers are registered world wide? Or, more important, how many pure bred Icelandic horses are spread around the world? FEIF performs every year a survey among member countries and the facts and figures for the years 2006-2010...
FEIF has launched a new website for mobile users (PDA and smart phone) with faster access to news, WorldRanking, yearly ranking, addresses and documents. The website also provides direct access to sport results of riders and horses. The address is www.feif.org/mobile .
The FEIF Conference 2011 will take place February 25-27, 2011, in Vienna (A). The conference combines general meetings about interesting subjects with the yearly Delegates' Assembly (the highest authority within FEIF) and the different annual department meetings for...
A lot of helping hands are needed to make the World Championships for Icelandic Horses 2011 an unforgetable experience. Construction work, planning of the camping site, or the organization of catering - our volunteers are around, wherever lots of work needs to be...
2011 will be another exciting year for the Icelandic Horse World, with the World Championships 2011 in St Radegund, Austria. Of course it was a disappointment that Landsmót 2010 - as the major event that takes place every two years in Iceland - had to be cancelled....
Flowing manes, thundering hoofs en lots of Icelandic fire, that's what Horses on Ice, the European Championships on Ice, is like. It is being held March 19, 2011, on the artificial icerink Kennemerland in Haarlem (NL, close to Amsterdam Airport). More than 100...
The authorities in Iceland have updated the information on the epidemic disease among horses in Iceland. The upper respiratory tract infection epidemic in the equine population in Iceland is now declining. By the time the first cases were reported in the beginning of...
On 17 November 2010, the European Horse Network (EHN) has held a Seminar dedicated to the Economic impact of the Horse industry in European regions. It has enabled numerous representatives of the Horse's industry from various Member States to have a fruitful exchange...
Five more judges have been appointed for the World Championships 2011 in St Radegund (A): Åsa William (Eriksson), Bent Rune Skulevold, Florian Schneider, Nicolai Thye and Uschi Heller-Voigt. They have been appointed by a special committee (Einar Ragnarsson, Marko...
In the weekend of November 4-7, 2010, the FEIF Board, all committees and the FEIF Taskforce did meet in Haarlem (NL). Part of the weekend the Board, Breeding committees, Sport committee, Sport Judges committee, Education committee and Youth committee had their own...
In the weekend of November 4-7, 2010, the FEIF Board, all committees and the FEIF Taskforce will meet in Haarlem (NL). Part of the weekend the Board, Breeding committees, Sport committee, Sport Judges committee, Education committee and Youth committee will have their...
The FEIF Education Committee will offer a Seminar for riding teachers, trainers and active judges at Hólar, 25th-26th of August 2011. In 2006 the Trainers seminar was held at Hólar as well and got very good feedback. This time the main theme will be training of the...
In the weekend of October 22-24, 2010, the last FEIF WorldRanking event of 2010 will take place in the USA. The venue is the Kentucky Icelandic Horse Show at Locust Hill Farm, Prospect, KY. In the weekend of October 15 and 16 the first WorldRanking Event in the USA in...
Ten countries have appointed a judge for the World Championships 2011 in Austria: Carina Heller, BE; Christian Reischauer, AT; Christoph Leibold, DE; Fi Pugh, GB; Hulda G. Geirsdóttir, IS; Jean-Paul Balz, CH; Jens Krarup Nielsen, DK; Laura Pihkala-Posti, FI; Lena...