Japanese Olympic team rider Shingo Hayashi (40) got engaged on 1 April 2025. His fiancée is an amateur dressage rider equally in Shingo's passion for horses.
Australian Grand Prix rider David Shoobridge did not defend his Australian Young Horse Champion's title with Vittorio DS at the 2025 Young Horse Nationals, because of a skiing accident. "I had a skiing accident a few weeks before and tore my MCL in my right knee," Shoobridge told Eurodressage. "Dr’s said not to ride…. in hindsight I should have just done what most horse people do… and push on! I seriously had FOMO."
Equestrian Canada and the Canadian Warmblood Horse Breeders Association (CWHBA) are partnering in EC’s Breed Association Horse Recording Program, a newly developed pilot program to recognize future competition horses, their breeders and associated breed registries. Through this program horses and foals registered annually with CWHBA will receive Horse Recordings in the EC database (MyEC). Horses registered by the CWHBA will be identified on all EC online national ranking lists with the CWHBA logo and/or breed name. Performance horses will be tracked for the life of the animal based on their participation at EC sanctioned events. The data provided will be used to promote Canadian-bred sport horses and to rank the top breeders and sires.
on Dantino at the 2025 CDI Sint-Truiden
Former Dutch junior/young rider team rider Marjolein Cho Chia Yuen has become a first time mom of a boy named Yip. He was born on 4 February 2025. Cho was a former student of Anky van Grunsven and aboard Cho's Pepper (by Pablo x Placido) represented The Netherlands at the 2008 European Junior Riders Championships in Azeitao and 2009 European Young Riders Championshipsin Ermelo. The 35-year old Cho gave up international competition sport career in 2011 although she continued riding nationally and briefly rode for Sport Pro Horses. She currently works for a communications company and married Nick Belgraver in September 2022.
American dressage riders Ben Winger and Ben Albright are leaving the Lipar family's Paragon Stables, which will be closing its doors to its dressage program according to Winger. Winger and Albright are relocating to GoldMark Farm in Ocala, Florida.
Jessica Michel Botton's former Grand Prix horse Daimler de Hus has passed away at age 23. Dressprod reported the news. The dark bay gelding was Hanoverian bred by Don Davidoff x Davignon. He was bred by Axel Windeler and sold to Haras de Hus as a youngster. Under Michel he made his international show debut at small tour level in 2012 in Vejer de la Frontera, and also competed in Vidauban. He did one CDI at Grand Prix level in Saumur in May 2013.