Hey EN, a quick note before today’s news: On Saturday, July 18, two statements from British Eventing were posted informing us that two serious incidents had taken place at competitions — one at Swalcliffe in Oxfordshire
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The Adelaide Equestrian Festival is thrilled to announce the appointment of Australia’s two Level 4 FEI Course Designers, Clayton Fredericks and Ewan Kellett, as part of the Festival’s elite course design team for 2026. After
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Never one to rest on his laurels, when we bump into Mike Etherington-Smith on course at Red Hills Horse Trials, he’s already finalising plans for next year’s cross country in his head. Today horses will
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Red Hills International, a popular destination for eventers prepping for Rolex or stepping up a level, announced today that a new cross country course design team has been put in place in preparation for 2016
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The great baseball player, Rogers “The Rajah” Hornsby once said, “People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait
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Mike Etherington-Smith announced today he will step down as chief executive of British Eventing, a position he’s held since 2009, to focus more on cross country course designing and consulting. “It’s no secret that my
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Who wants to be America’s next top course designer? Plantation Field Equestrian Events has launched a development program to find and mentor an aspiring upper-level designer to work under Mike Etherington-Smith
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Big news out of Plantation Field this morning! World renowned cross-country course designer Mike Etherington-Smith has signed on to design the 2014 CIC3* course at Plantation Field Horse Trials,
...» Read More!It’s been a dramatic week leading up to Adelaide, as course designer Wayne Copping was rushed to the hospital last week after suffering a heart attack, the FEI reports. He’s since undergone successful bypass surgery
...» Read More!Check out these photos from Barnmice They may depict… 1) A sneak peak at this year’s Head of the Lake. The great Mike ES has decided to substitute technical questions for surface tension questions. 2) New
...» Read More!Eventing Nation continues its 2010 World Equestrian Games coverage asking a few questions of the Eventing Championships cross-country course designer, Mike Etherington-Smith. Mike Etherington-Smith hardly needs an introduction. He designed the Sydney and Hong Kong
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