The results of the 2014 KWPN Horse of the Year election were announced this evening: Zenith SFN is the winner! Those present to honor him included his breeder, the Supervisory Board, the selectors, and the shareholders of the Dutch Show Jumper Funds (SFN). During the award ceremony, the Voort family of Den Ham was presented […]
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Equestrian champions are taking on athletes across all sports in the Year of the Horse in bids to claim top national sports awards in the Netherlands and Ireland. The Netherlands’ traditional Sport Gala 2014 announced its nominees on Sunday night, with equestrian heroes featuring in four of the six categories. Ireland’s teenage sensation Bertram Allen […]
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The reigning World Champions from the Netherlands have been nominated by the Dutch Olympic Committee & Dutch Sport Federation’s Sport Gala. Reigning Double World Champion Jeroen Dubbeldam has been nominated for the ‘Sportsman of the Year’ Award, the gold winning team consisting of Jeroen Dubbeldam, Jur Vrieling, Maikel van der Vleuten and Gerco Schröder have […]
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Two of our sport’s best can be found on the shortlist for the Reem Acra Best Athlete of the Year Award by the Federation Equestrian Internationale; the Netherland’s Jeroen Dubbeldam and Germany’s Daniel Deusser. In September, Dubbeldam was crowned double World Champion in Normandy while also winning the Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup Finals in Barcelona, […]
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This week the city of Shanghai hosted the Longines International Horse Festival, an international event that took place in the most populous city of the People’s Republic of China. A perfect location to give further momentum to equestrian sport in China. Thanks to the efforts of such sponsors as Longines, the sport is seeing a […]
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