Vejer de La Frontera – February 12, 2023 – A busy Sunday featured no less than three grands prix to conclude the first week of the Andalucía Sunshine Tour and the tradition of the German school of riding was honored as Jana Wargers (GER) rode Deesse de Coquerie […]
Vejer de La Frontera – February 12, 2023 – Top British rider, Matthew Sampson (GBR) had a superb win today with the lovely grey mare, Ebolensky in the €97,880 Horseware Grand Prix CSI 4*. The first one of this XXIX Andalucía Sunshine Tour. ‘Ebolensky’ is a 14-year-old grey […]
Vejer de La Frontera– February 11, 2023 – Michael Hughes (USA) rode a foot perfect jump off round today in the beautiful grass Hickstead arena, in the €26,800 Small Grand Prix CSI 4*, sponsored by Geolastic. He was riding the lovely grey gelding Eclatant, who is 14 years old […]
Vejer de La Frontera– February 10, 2023 – Dutch rider, Sanne Thijssen (NED) flew around the WKD Big Tour, FEI, Longines Ranking class today. She was riding ’Con Quidam RB’, the lovely stallion who is now 17 years old and is by ‘Quinar Z’, with the dam sire ‘Cardino […]
Vejer de La Frontera– February 9, 2023 – Top Spanish rider Sergio Álvarez Moya (ESP) had a stunning start to his season on the first day of CSI4* at the Andalucía Sunshine Tour 2023. This event is kindly sponsored by the ‘Consejería de Turismo, Cultura y Deporte’ and […]
Vejer de La Frontera, Spain – January 27, 2023 – Her partner won, she was second and also first! So you must be asking yourself, hows that even possible? It turns out world Number two in the World Rankings, Martin Fuchs (SUI won but Paris Sellon (USA) did […]
Vejer de La Frontera, Spain – January 27, 2023 – Number two in the World Rankings, Swiss rider, Martin Fuchs (SUI, once again demonstrated why he is world renown, with an elegant round winning today’s €26,200 Longines Ranking CSI 2* class; here at the 2023 Andalucía Pre-Sunshine Tour, […]
Vejer de La Frontera, Spain – January 22, 2023 – The last day of jumping of the first week here at the Andalucía Pre-Sunshine Tour, finished off with an extremely exciting jump-off of the €26,200 Grand Prix of Vejer de La Frontera CSI 2* , held in the […]
Vejer de La Frontera, Spain – October 29, 2022 – Mimi Gochman (USA) and Celina BH rose to the occasion and flew around to victory in the €25,900 Yeguada Cartuja Trophy CSIO 3* on Saturday at the Andalucía Sunshine Tour CSIO 3*. The 1.50m two-phase class had almost […]
Sunshine Tour, Vejer de La Frontera – October 28, 2022 – Today it was Gold for Spain in the Nations Cup CSIO 3*. The whole event was sponsored by Cervezas Victoria who are regular sponsors of the II Andalucía October Tour. The Spanish Chef d’Equipe was Carolo López Quesada […]
Sunshine Tour, Vejer de La Frontera – October 27, 2022 – Today’s competition day at the Montenmedio equestrian facilities got off to a strong start with the most important test of the CSIO 3* so far, the 1.50m Speed Challenge, held on the Milton sand ring. A total of […]
Vejer de La Frontera, Spain – October 22, 2022 – Alain Jufer (SUI) was on fire at the 2022 Andalucía Sunshine Tour. In one week he had two wins, on Saturday with Dante MM after also having won the previous day with Dark Grey, a second place with […]
Vejer de La Frontera, Spain – Rodrigo Giesteira Almeida (POR) and Imposant van de Renger imposed their will on the course, overcoming all the obstacles on their way to victory in the €51,900 Diputación de Cadiz Grand Prix CSI 3* last Sunday during the second week of the […]
Vejer de La Frontera, Spain – October 22, 2022 – Spanish victory led by José Fumero Hernández (ESP) in the first qualifying test for the Longines of this third week of competition of the II Andalucía October Tour, an event sponsored by the Regional Ministry of Tourism, Culture […]
Wellington, Florida, USA – April 03, 2022 – It’s showtime for showjumping and the last FEI class of the 2022 Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF) at the newly renamed Wellington International, formerly known as the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center (PBIEC). High level competition promises to come to an end in grand […]
Wellington, Florida, USA – March 27, 2022 – Besides the Big Tour Grand Prix CSI 4*, another major class took place last Sunday on the final day of the Spring edition of the 2022 Andalucía Sunshine Tour as Pedro Veniss (BRA) and Boeckmanns Lord Pezi Junior stole the […]
Vejer de La Frontera, Spain – March 27, 2022 – “A lifelong dream’ was the way that Enrique Camiruaga Rueda, (ESP) described his impressive win in the Invitational GP class. He rode a carefully crafted clear round over this beautifully designed course, taking the top of the podium […]
Vejer de La Frontera, Spain – March 27, 2022 – It’s time for the last major prance and dance at the 2022 edition of the Andalucía Sunshine Tour CSI 4*, the final €148,700 Longines Grand Prix CSI 4* this Sunday, starting at 14:30 local time. Grand prix winners […]
Vejer de La Frontera, Spain – March 26, 2022 – Another great victory in the Andalucía Sunshine Tour for Dominique Hendrickx (BEL) in a numerous jump-off for which a total of 17 combinations of the 80 registered in the test qualified. The Belgian rider, 154th in the World Ranking […]
Vejer de La Frontera, Spain – March 24, 2022 – The Swedish Marcus Westergren (SWE) and ‘Astree de Burgo‘ have prevailed in Thursday’s main challenge, the Big Tour 1.50 held on the main track number at the David Broome ring. With this mare, daughter of ‘Kannan’ x ‘Socrate de Chivre’, […]
Vejer de La Frontera, Spain – March 23, 2022 – It’s showtime for showjumping and time for one last prance and dance at the winter edition of the 2022 Andalucía Sunshine Tour, once again featuring five-star riders and horses competing at the four-star level throughout the week. Across […]
Vejer de La Frontera, Spain – March 23, 2022 – It’s time for one last prance and dance at the winter edition of the Andalucía Sunshine Tour CSI 4*. Another four-star week with five-star level riders and horses has already begun, attracting the likes of Pénélope Leprévost (FRA), Olivier Robert […]
Vejer de La Frontera, Spain – March 19, 2022 – The eventers are coming! Australian International eventer, Chris Burton (AUS) or ‘Burto’, who is renowned as the fastest cross country rider in the world, and a two time Olympian, has already been showing off his talents by winning […]
Vejer de La Frontera, Spain – March 18, 2022 – The Tío Pepe Trophy, one of the two Ranking tests held today in the Andalucía Sunshine Tour, ended with the brilliant victory of the Belgian rider Dominique Hendrickx (BEL). Accompanied by his twelve-year-old horse ‘Koriano Van Klapscheut‘, son of […]
Vejer de La Frontera, Spain – March 17, 2021 – The first Longines Ranking class in the the sixth week here at the Andalucía Sunshine Tour was extremely busy on Thursday. One hundred and thirteen entries competed in the feature class of the day, meaning that the class […]
Vejer de La Frontera, Spain – March 16, 2022 – It’s time for another four-star week with five-star level riders and horses during the third week of the 2022 Andalucía Sunshine Tour! Once again, the event has attracted some of the best in the world, highlighted by the likes […]
Vejer de La Frontera, Spain – March 13, 2022 – The Spanish anthem has resounded loudly at the Montenmedio equestrian facilities thanks to the performance of Mariano Martínez Bastida (ESP) who, riding ‘Belano van de Wijnhoeve Z‘, was the fastest in the €30,480 Medium Tour Andalucía Grand Prix […]
Vejer de La Frontera, Spain – March 12, 2022 – The French rider Penélope Leprevost (FRA), one of the best riders of all time ranked 57th in the Longines FEI Ranking and three times Olympian, has achieved an impressive victory in the Andalusian Grand Prix, a test sponsored […]
Vejer de La Frontera, Spain – March 11, 2022 – The Brazilian Pedro Veniss (BRA) returns to the Andalucia Sunshine Tour CSI 4*, achieving his second great victory in this edition of this important international equestrian competition, sponsored by the Ministry of Tourism, Regeneration, Justice and Local Administration […]
Vejer de La Frontera, Spain – March 10, 2022 – Irish Olympic jockey Billy Twomey (IRL) won today’s Big Test with ‘Frenchy VDS‘, a Cornet Obolensky x Quidam de Revel mare. His time of 59.24 seconds was the fastest of the 70 competitors who took part in the 1.50m […]
