Showing posts with label FEI. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FEI. Show all posts
Friday, September 02, 2022

Swedish barefoot vs shod showjumper comparative research preview at FEI World Championships

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The world watched Swedish barefoot show jumpers sweep the individual and team gold medals at the FEI World Championships in August in Hernin...
Friday, August 06, 2021

The Olympic (Bare) Hoof: Sweden's All In delivers a shoeless silver medal for rider Peder Fredricson

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Ears up: Sweden won the team gold medal! Watch for Fran's followup interview with Swedish team farrier Peter Glimberg on his hybrid pr...
Tuesday, August 03, 2021

The Olympic Hoof: FEI salutes farriers as crucial to equine performance in Tokyo

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Note: This story was provided to Hoofcare Publishing by the media relations service of the Fédération Equestre Internationale (F...
Saturday, April 17, 2021

Remembering Britain's Prince Philip and the Quick-Thinking Farrier

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Prince Philip's brush with danger at the 2013 Royal Windsor Horse Show has almost been forgotten but it could have ended quite different...
Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Farrier "Teams" Will Be On Site for FEI World Equestrian Games™ Tryon 2018

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Edited from press release The American and International Associations of Professional Farriers (AAPF/IAPF) have announced an agreeme...
Wednesday, July 19, 2017

FEI hosts new Grooms Working Group; will support their role in sport horse welfare

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Grooms are gaining recognition for the role they play in equine welfare within equestrian sport. The FEI's new Grooms Working Group is...
Thursday, August 18, 2016

Olympic Farriers: Inside the Forge at Rio

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This article is an edited extract from a general news release from the FEI. Some of the hardest working people behind the scenes at...
Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Video U: Watch the UMaine Conference "The Science Behind the FEI White Paper on Equine Arena Surfaces"

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On December 7, 2014, a very special seminar took place at the University of Maine at Orono's Witter Farm. You'll wish you had b...
Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Who Left Those Hoofprints in the Sand?

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The impermanence of art: the incoming tide will wash away the hoofprints on the beach near Mont St Michel, but the FEI has made a grand im...
Thursday, April 17, 2014

Footing Science: FEI Sport Horse Arena and Track Surfaces Report Download

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Is there an ideal footing for all horses? Racetrack surfaces and sport horse arena surfaces are always fair fuel for arguments. The FEI...
Friday, May 03, 2013

Behind the Scenes at the FEI World Cup Finals with Swedish Farrier Bjorn Berg

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You're a long way from home when you go to the Gothenburg Horse Show in Sweden . The huge Swedish spring horse show hosted both the d...
Wednesday, August 08, 2012

Update on Hypersensitive Disqualification of Canadian Rider Tiffany Foster 's Horse from Olympics for Cut on Coronet

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It's the story that has stayed on everyone's mind. Less than an hour before she was to mount up and ride in her first Olympic ...
Sunday, August 05, 2012

Olympic Hypersensitivity: Cut on Coronet Forces Canadian Jumper's Horse Out of Games

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An FEI inspection of a jumper's pasterns. The clipped pasterns on showjumpers means that any cuts and scrapes, especially on light-co...
Wednesday, May 30, 2012

FEI Grant Funds World Horse Welfare's Cambodian Farrier Education

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British farrier Tom Burch (far left, kneeling) With the Olympics looming on the calendar, the FEI is prominent in the news. But today&#...
Monday, April 16, 2012

FEI Veterinarian ID Card System Begins June 1, 2012; All Treating, Team and Private Equine Practitioners at Events Must Comply

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The following information is posted to assist the Federation Equestre Internationale (FEI) , the worldwide governing body for horse s...
Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Isabell Werth's Satchmo Follows in Totilas' Heart-Bar Hoofprints at FEI World Cup Finals

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Satchmo's left front shoe worn at the 2008 Olympics when he and Isabell Werth helped win the team gold medal in dressage for Germany. ...
Sunday, October 03, 2010

Hoofcare@WEG: Cutest Farrier Rig at the World Equestrian Games

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I don't know how Sandy Johnson gets any work done. Everyone is so curious about her cute little shoeing trailer that she has to keep s...
Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Hoofcare@WEG: Educational Events for Hoof Blog Readers

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Ok, horse world, it's time to plan how and when you're going to take in the opportunities waiting for you in Lexington, Kentucky ove...