Bruce Haskell News Today

1. Rider interviews after horse falls Event riders involved in horse falls at FEI competitions in 2024 will be asked to speak with the ground jury to help improve cross-country safety in future, in a step the Eventing Riders Association (ERA) has welcomed. Although the FEI already collects a certain amount of data on falls, […]

Riders involved in eventing horse falls will be asked to speak with the ground jury to help improve cross-country safety in future

The FEI has said that it appreciates the frustration and there was “no lack of willingness” on its part to allow a replacement CCI2*-S to go ahead at Bicton

The death of a showjumper South African showjumper Ronnie Lawrence has died aged 65. Ronnie started his career aged 16, and in 1984 he took a South African-bred ex-racehorse to England to prepare for the Los Angeles Olympics. He jumped clear in the Queen Elizabeth II Cup at Hickstead and after this went to America […]

Event riders have made a “personal appeal” to the FEI after the organisation backtracked on replacement class for those lost to the wet spring

Eventing came together to look forward and talk about the future in a meeting called at Thoresby following many withdrawals among the top-level classes. The wet spring – England’s dampest March in 40 years according to the Met Office – has sliced through the eventing calendar. At the Eventing Spring Carnival at Thoresby Park, organisers […]

The appetite to reopen the eventing flag rule debate has gone from ‘hell no’ to ‘yes please’ after a potential breakthrough in Sweden

Weeding out “soft qualifications” is vital for the future of elite-level eventing and ensuring that only suitably prepared competitors get to five-star

British Eventing will bring in a major whip rule change next season. The news was revealed at the association’s AGM on 8 December

Eventing prize money rules will undergo the first of a two-part rejig in 2022, as the sport continues with its push for change. A table of minimum percentages for section winners replaces the upper and lower limits for placed competitors at British Eventing (BE) fixtures from this season. The new rules mean in all sections […]