Horse & Rider Training Tips

Significant changes in the areas of new penalty points, stricter MERs, level of difficulty at World Championship level and new rules for Arena/Indoor Eventing are in the eventing rules issued by the FEI to come into effect on 1 st January 2017

“I try and make them into friends straight away” says Oliver Townend about how to successfully compete on a ‘catch ride’

We talk to Captain Mark Phillips and discover why ‘muscle memory is a bitch’ how to ‘be a monkey in a rucksack’, why the top riders ‘ride tall’ and tips for dealing with skinny fences

A summary of the main decisions for Eventing from the FEI Bureau in-person meeting in Tokyo on 19 th November ahead of the 2016 FEI General Assembly

FEI Secretary General Sabrina Ibáñez joined some of the world’s foremost medical experts at the fifth International Consensus Conference on Concussion in Sport (ICCCS)

The United States Eventing Association (USEA) Safety Committee is seeking the help of eventing riders for a research study into improve safety on cross country courses

The FEI Eventing Risk Management Steering Group held its first meeting at FEI headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland this week

Equestrian Australia has updated its Helmet Standard to the General Regulations as from 19 October 2016.

VIDEO: With International Helmet Awareness Day taking place, we take a look at the evolution of riding hats for equestrians, from the top hat through to today's technically advanced helmets

Counting strides out loud can help you and your horse focus on approach to a fence - this training video from a Chris Burton cross country clinic shows what a simple but effective warm-up exercise it can be when used slightly differently