Equestrian sports are in a state of change, as demonstrated by the founding some years ago of Federations in Asia and the Americas and now the European Equestrian Federation founded the EEF. The IJRC therefore take note of this new association but cannot fail to underline that in this case, as in others, riders do not seem to find adequate...

  FEI ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE RESOLVES ROLLKUR CONTROVERSY   Following constructive debate at the FEI round-table conference at the IOC Headquarters in Lausanne today (9 February), the consensus of the group was that any head and neck position achieved through aggressive force is not acceptable. The group redefined hyperflexion/Rollkur as flexion of the horse’s neck achieved through aggressive force, which is therefore...

I will be attending on tuesday the 9th a round table in Lausanne regarding Hyperflexion. There as been lately this new item : hyperflexion or rollkur, picked up by the press and the internet medias, the FEI wishes to hear from all the interest groups and come with some agreement regarding training methods.

  In the last two months the equestrian world has been speaking only about doping, so called “20 October list”, prohibited substances, banned substances, progressive list, a few mistakes concerning doses 500mcg/ml or 0.5mcg/ml in plasma: which make a big difference.   Lists or rules which come into force or not, postponed for a month or maybe for a year; probably they have...

Our members have been informing us about some points appearing 2 to 3 times in the ranking for some classes at some shows like : Arezzo, Hickstead, Palm Beach We checked with the FEI and they insure us that although these points appear several times the program counts them just once. They are working on solving this problem in order to avoid...