FEI Press Release by Louise Parkes FEI Dressage World Cup™ Final 2022 – Leipzig, Germany It was no surprise when the reigning Olympic and European gold medallists, 36-year-old Jessica von Bredow-Werndl and her 15-year-old mare TSF Dalera BB, strutted their way into pole position in the Short Grand Prix when…
Continue ReadingFEI Dressage World Cup™ Final 2022 – Leipzig, Germany FEI Press Release by Louise Parkes From a coma to the World Cup Finals – the extraordinary story of Dressage rider Juan Matute Guimon, in his own words…. Tonight 24-year-old Spanish rider Juan Matute Guimon competes at his first FEI…
Continue ReadingFEI Dressage World Cup™ 2021/2022 – Western European League For FEI Germany’s golden girls – the Olympic and European champions Jessica von-Bredow Werndl and her 15-year-old mare TSF Dalera BB – were the undisputed winners of today’s sixth and last qualifying leg of the FEI Dressage World Cup™ 2021/2022 Western…
Continue ReadingFEI Talking Horses Kyra Kyrklund, six-time Dressage Olympian for Finland, multiple Nordic and Finnish champion in Dressage, Jumping and Eventing, six-time FEI Dressage World Cup™ finalist and winner of the FEI World Cup™ Final with Matador in 1991 talks to Louise Parkes about her life and times. A hugely popular…
Continue ReadingFEI Talking Horses, by Louise Parkes Horses and Courses…. As the FEI celebrates its centenary this year, some of the biggest names in modern course design talk about the changes and challenges in the sports of Jumping and Eventing. They may have their very different styles and their own personal…
Continue Reading“FEI Talking Horses”, by Louise Parkes As the FEI celebrates its centenary, one man’s name stands out when it comes to the development of equestrian sport over the last 100 Years – journalist, historian, art collector and creator of the FEI World Cup™ Jumping series Mr. Max Ammann….. There are…
Continue ReadingFEI Press Release by Louise Parkes Defending champions Werth and Weihegold have to settle for second as Germans scoop top four placings It has been a long wait since the first leg was staged last October, but the resumption of the 2020/2021 FEI Dressage World Cup™ Western European League didn’t…
Continue ReadingFEI Press Release by Louise Parkes German big guns out in force Reigning five-time series champion and World No. 1, Germany’s Isabell Werth, heads the sparkling start-list for the FEI Dressage World Cup™ qualifier in Salzburg, Austria this weekend. She will partner Weihegold OLD, the 16-year-old mare with which she…
Continue ReadingThere’s nothing like a home victory to please the crowd, and although numbers were limited as pandemic protocols were strictly in place, Cathrine Dufour’s winning ride with Bohemian at the first leg of the FEI Dressage World Cup™ 2020/2021 Western European League in Aarhus (DEN) brought spectators to their feet…
Continue ReadingPersisting in the face of the disruption caused by the pandemic that has led to the cancellation of multiple equestrian events in recent months, the FEI Dressage World Cup™ 2020/2021 Western European League gets underway in Denmark this week. Initially scheduled to take place in Herning, this opening leg has…
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