The highly popular and versatile MagicBrush is what every horse person needs in their grooming box! MagicBrush for the Hoof: Effortlessly cleans the hoof frog and hard to clean spaces...

Australian Outback Spectacular on the Gold Coast has launched a new production celebrating Phar Lap and the spirit of the horse, so popular TV show 'Today' decided to investigate Australia's long love affair with the horse. 'Today' has created an entertaining video segment called The Spirit of the Horse, which is about a lot more than the new Australian Outback Spectacular show. It features Greg Powell - Equitana's The Way Of The Horse winner - and shows great flashback footage from legendary movie The Man From Snowy River, the Sydney 2000 Olympics opening ceremony and Phar Lap's racing days. ...

With the implementation of Equestrian Australia's High Performance Strategic Plan "Roadmap to Success" during 2011, a High Performance Advisory Panel has been introduced to the HP Program. The role of this committee which will be advisory and is to utilise the collective High Performance experience of the group to monitor international trends and development in high performance sport and to support further development of the High Performance Program. ...

The 2011 Saddleworld Dressage Festival was held from 8 - 11 December at Werribee, with plenty of top quality dressage and exciting performances on offer over the four days of competition. DAY ONE - THURSDAY Competitors were greeted with brilliant sunshine on the first day of the Saddleworld Dressage Festival, a welcome change from previous years! The weather was hot and so was the competition, with several very close contests in some classes and some impressive performances. ...

Brett Parbery has just reported on his website, "It is with great sadness that we report that Carolyn Lieutenant's wonderful horse Victory Salute, aka Sam, has been laid to rest at our property in Penrose after his recent battle with laminitis. Our advice leads us to believe that the laminitis was caused by Cushings Disease, which was not detected during early testing and had progressed to a toxic point, therefore causing a severe bout of toxic laminitis."...

Congratulations to the 2011 World Cup Australian League winner, Jamie Kermond, who was so far ahead on points he did not need to compete in the final competition, the 2011 Summer Classic CSI-W, on the weekend. The final event over the weekend has formalised Sydney-based Jamie's 2011 Australian League title, thus earning him the right to represent Australia at the 2011/12 FEI World Cup Jumping Final in 's-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands in April 2012. ...

The 2011 Summer Classic, held over the weekend, at the Sydney International Equestrian Centre, Horsley Park, was the last chance for riders to gain Olympic qualifications on Australian soil ahead of the London Olympic Games. ...

Congratulations to Rachael Sanna and Jaybee Alabaster, who stole the show at the Saddleworld Dressage Festival over the weekend, winning all three Grand Prix classes and therefore the Pacific League World Cup Final. ...

Brazil's Alvaro de Miranda claimed maximum points and set himself on the road to the series Final with a breath-taking victory riding AD Ashleigh Drossel Dan in the sixth leg of the Rolex FEI World Cup™ Jumping Western European League at Geneva, Switzerland this afternoon. With 16 of the world's best horses and riders through to the closing stages, the second-round race against the clock was a thriller in which the lead changed again and again. ...

Katie McVean showed she’s got plenty of rising talent in her stable winning two of the big classes at the New Zealand National Young Horse Jumping Championship Show in Dannevirke today. The 25-year-old Olympian from Mystery Creek took three of the top four placings in the seven year old championship while also winning the five year old championship and placing in the six year old championship. ...