The great relay ride that started on June 15th, 2020 from the north of Sweden towards the south with a total of 1.750km has meanwhile reached day 42! This national happening is coordinated by the Swedish Icelandic Horse Association (SIF) and carried out by local...
6th July was scheduled to be the beginning of Landsmót 2020, and with that the FEIF virtual ride ‘Hello Hella’ is also coming to an end. The preparations, the training, and the joyful anticipation of Landsmót 2020 were real – and so was all the riding done by the...
The Day of the Icelandic horse, celebrated September 12, 2020 is the perfect opportunity to showcase our wonderful breed all over the world! No matter what you organise to bring people closer to the Icelandic horse - an open house, an event, or a competition like the...
Sverigeritten, a relay ride from the north to the south of Sweden, sets off on the island of Gotland today, June 15th, 2020. Fifty-five days and 1,748 km later, the last group will arrive in Ystad on 16 August. The main intention for this major event is to engage and...
Due to the current situation caused by COVID-19 the FEIF Riders' Camp 2020 which was planned to take place during the Norwegian fjellfestival in August 2020 has been cancelled. The good news is that a new date has already been fixed for 2021 - August 18-22, 2021. So...
Since they started in August, the FEIF Virtual riders have now covered 23.510km on 'Hello Hella', this year's ride to Landsmót 2020. Virtual ride? In these days of coronavirus, a lot of things seem to switch to 'virtual'. At my University we are introducing virtual...
The first FEIF Riders' Camp will be hosted by the Norwegian members association Norsk Islandshestforening (NIHF) and will take place in the beautiful mountains in the center Norway, an amazing and wonderful highland region in the mountainous wilderness! In 2020, the...
For the first time since the FEIF Leisure Riding Department was created 18 representatives from 12 FEIF member countries participated in this annual meeting which shows that there is growing interest in this topic in our Icelandic horse community. The agenda included...
'Hello Hella' is the name of the 2020 FEIF Virtual Ride to Landsmót at Hella and all through the winter, Icelandic horse riders are quietly adding more and more km to their personal ride from home, wherever that is, to Hella, the location of 2020 Landsmót, in Southern...
The leisure riding committee used the opportunity of meeting in Haarlem in the Netherlands this year to work on the preparations and planning of the FEIF Leisure Riders Camp which will take place as part of the Fjellfestival in Norway from August 19 - 24, 2020. It...
In August 2019 Icelandic horse riders of all ages and from all over the country came together in the unique Fjellfestival in the highlands of Norway. Almost 200 horses and like-minded people spent 3 days in the breathtaking landscape, enjoying the best of Norwegian...
90 riders, 17 teams, and a total of 2515 km (and that is only from those who remembered to send them in!) What a fabulous start!!! You find the details on https://feif-virtual.weebly.com/news-and-score-board.html. And the facebook page, too, shows that we are truly...
HELLO HELLA is the name of the 8th FEIF virtual ride, which takes us to Hella, Iceland, home to next Landsmót, the most important competition of the Icelandic horse in Iceland, 6th-12th July 2020. If you cannot participate in the real relay rides, why not join the...
On Sunday, August 4, 2019 80 riders and their horses rode from the Victory Column at the Brandenburg Gate to the stadium of the Icelandic Horses World Championship grounds in Karlshorst. On their ride through the city of Berlin they were accompanied again and again by...
On Sunday, August 4, 2019 80 riders and their horses rode from the Victory Column at the Brandenburg Gate to the stadium of the Icelandic Horses World Championship grounds in Karlshorst. On their ride through the city of Berlin they were accompanied again and again by...
In the meantime, the group of relay riders has reached Münsterland in Germany and further approached the World Championships 2019 in Berlin! On their ride, the riders in their blue polo shirts were always warmly welcomed and neither the oak processionary moth (horses...
Four Icelandic horse riders from the Netherlands handed over the baton to the riders of IPZV in a small ceremony at the green border between the Netherlands and Germany. Jacob-Jan Rijnberg from the Dutch Icelandic Horse Association held a short speech: .. This journey...
On June 15th the Relay Ride 2019 started in Oirschot, Netherlands with the goal to reach Berlin before the start of the World Championships 2019! The idea for the Relay ride was born at the beginning of the 80's, when some of the riders rode on their Icelandic horses...