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Please forgive us, here at Allied Equine, this one inward-looking piece – a newsletter of sorts – for those countless thousands of you who have been repeatedly coming back to our site day after day, week after week.
Here at Allied Equine, we’ve been pretty lackadaisical about keeping this website up-to-speed. For good reason. When we [...]

For those of you who don’t know, Matt Williams Olympic ride Leconte 6, is now being ridden by Germany’s Marcus Ehning.  After the Olympics Matt received a fantastic offer to ride in the UK, which meant he could not take Leconte with him. Marcus Ehning has the ride and judging by this video, there are [...]

The equestrian events in London’s 2012 Olympic Games will take place in a Royal park after Olympic chiefs this week gave the green light to a temporary Cross Country course in Greenwich Park despite strong opposition.
Dressage and Show Jumping are set to take place in front of the Queen’s House, and are expected to draw [...]

It’s Australias biggest equestrian exhibition and showcases everything from western to jumping to dressage to nutrition for your horse. This year it takes place at the Melbourne Showgrounds.
EQUITANA Asia Pacific is Australias largest international multi disciplined equine festival that brings the entire equine community together in four action packed days of education, competition, exhibition and [...]

The London International Horse Show at Olympia is a famous tradition around Christmas time in the UK, with a host of equestrian event spectaculars. This years show runs from the 16th – 22nd of December.
The show inlcudes a round of the FEI Rolex World Cup Showjumping Qualifier, plus a host of other events and exibitions.

You [...]

After a year off due to the Equine Influenza outbreak, the Adelaide International 3 Day Event is back bigger than ever from the 14th to 16th of November.
As usual there will be host of equestrian stars, including the members of the successful silver medal winning Olympic Eventing team from Beijing, plus international riders from around [...]

Viewed, trained by Bart Cummings and ridden by Blake Shinn has won the 2008 Melbourne Cup, just edgeing out Bauer. It’s an incredible achievement for Cummings, who now has 12 cups to his name. Enjoy this video replay o the 2008 Melbourne Cup to the left.
Share this Melbourne Cup video replay with your friends on [...]

 
Katie Price is a glamour model known as Jordan. She was refused entry to the Cartier International Polo Event this summer, even though she had reserved a £5000 table. She was furious as she claimed The Establishment had snubbed her. Indeed they had, maybe it was something to do with her previous work (see below).
Jordan [...]

 
One of the great weight for age races in the world has this year been won by Maldivian. Maldivian last year was scratched after injuring himself in the start gates. Its a great win for Mark Kavanagh and his connections. Zipping placed second, and crowd favourite Miss Samantha third.

 
You would think that the last thing Rodrigo Pessoa would think of doing at a major competition would be to dope his horse. Afterall, he was handed the Olympic gold medal in Athens after Irishman Cian O’Connor was caught doping his horse.
This time Rodrigo has been suspended himself for 135 days, for allegedly using [...]