Rk Rider NF Points 1. BENGTSSON, Rolf-Göran SWE 2637 2. LAMAZE, Eric CAN 2483 3. BEERBAUM, Ludger GER 2332 4. AHLMANN, Christian GER 2193 5. SCHWIZER, Pius SUI 2163 5. WARD, Mclain USA 2163 7. STAUT, Kevin FRA 2093 8. SKELTON, Nick GBR 2090 9. KUTSCHER, Marco GER 2087 10. AFFONSO DE MIRANDA NETO, Alvaro [...]

2 Feb 2012 The 2012 USEF Dressage Festival of Champions will be held at the USET Foundation Headquarters in Gladstone, NJ over two weekends in June. June 8-10, 2012 will feature the first half of the Grand Prix National Dressage Championship (which will also serve as the USEF Selection Trial for the U.S. Dressage Team), [...]

2 Feb 2012 The London 2012 Organising Committee (LOCOG) has announced details of the lighting of the Olympic Flame and its arrival into the UK on the 18 May. The Flame will be lit in Greece on 10 May and travel on board a special gold-liveried aircraft to Cornwall ahead of the Torch Relay, which [...]

2 Feb 2012 The Live Oak International Driving Event will celebrate its 20th year in 2012. Over this 20 year period it has been the industry standard for Combined Driving Competition welcoming leading drivers, trainers, coaches and owners from Europe and North America and drawing thousands of people to the area as we again serve [...]

2 Feb 2012 Para-Dressage riders from 23 nations have qualified to take part in the London 2012 Paralympic Games. The qualification process, which began in October 2010, finished yesterday, 31 January 2012. As the top three ranked teams at the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games™ 2010, Great Britain, Germany and Denmark will each be represented [...]

2 Feb 2012 The first full FEI World Cup™ Vaulting season will culminate in a hotly contested Final in Bordeaux (FRA) this weekend (4-5 February), when the sport’s top male and female vaulters will compete to secure the World Cup title. Photo: Simone Jaiser from Switzerland The series has been hard fought with 10 male [...]

2 Feb 2012 The FTI Consulting Winter Equestrian Festival welcomed exhibitors for the fourth week of competition, which starts today and goes through Sunday, February 5. In the opening class in the International Arena, Darragh Kerins (IRL) guided Hot Wheels to victory in the $8,000 G&C Farm 1.45m Jumpers. Week four of the FTI WEF [...]

2 Feb 2012 Equestrian Sport Productions (ESP) is pleased to announce that the starting lists for the first event of the 2012 Global Dressage Festival (GDF) are now available on the website www.globaldressagefestival.com under the link for dressage show information on the main homepage. The Wellington Dressage CDI-W, presented by Magnolia Farm, and National Show [...]

2 Feb 2012 Year Two: The NARG Top 25 Shows in North America Are Revealed Following the overwhelmingly positive response to our 2010 Top 25 report, NARG’s host of volunteers once again invested hundreds of hours to numerically evaluate 50 of the top horse shows in North America. The 2011 results are an interesting mix [...]

1 Feb 2012 Belgian show jumper Judy Ann Melchior had not been seen around international competitions for the last weeks. As stated on studforlife.com, Judy Ann Melchior and Christian Ahlmann are expecting their first child. Therefore, Judy Ann will not compete until August. It is planned for this season that her mares As Cold as [...]

1 Feb 2012 Arenus®, makers of ASSURE™, EQUILITE™, SORE NO-MORE™, and STEADFAST™, is a Circuit sponsor with the FTI Consulting Winter Equestrian Festival (FTI WEF), which runs January 11-April 1, at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center in Wellington, FL. Arenus will help horse people learn how to live and ride a green and relaxing [...]

1 Feb 2012 Neumuenster- the horse country Schleswig Holstein is getting closer to a great event: the VR Classics from 16 – 19 February will again attract national and international high-class riders to the Holstenhallen in Neumuenster. Amongst many others the European Champion Rolf-Göran Bengtsson (Sweden) and the five time Olympic winner in dressage Isabell [...]

1 Feb 2012 Katie McVean may be on the cusp of securing her third World Cup series but there will still be plenty of competition for final honours in Tauranga this week at the New Zealand World Cup Final Show. It was touch and go as to whether McVean (Mystery Creek) would even get to [...]

TOP CLASS LINEUP FOR FEI WORLD CUP™ DRIVING FINAL IN BORDEAUX Driving fans will be treated to a thrilling finale of the FEI World Cup™ Driving 11th season in Bordeaux (FRA) on 3 and 4 February. Six drivers – Boyd Exell (AUS); IJsbrand Chardon (NED); Koos De Ronde (NED); Tomas Eriksson (SWE); Jozsef Dobrovitz (HUN) [...]

1 Feb 2012 As stated on dressage-news.com, American top dressage rider Steffen Peters will not compete his 14-year-old KWPN gelding Ravel (Contango x Hautain x Democraat) in the Word Cup Final at ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands taking place in April. Peters and Ravel’s owner Akiko Yamazaki concluded that the preparation for the Olympic Games in London [...]

1 Feb 2012 CAMERON Hanley has undergone 17 operations during the last eight months, four of which he has spent in hospital. The Mayo-born show jumper is unlikely to be back in the saddle until 2013, and in the meantime will have to restrict his equestrian activities to coaching and finding horses for clients. Ironically, [...]

1 Feb 2012 Just 0.05% stood between Charlotte Dujardin and the 70,000 Euro top spot at the Palm Beach World Dressage Masters Freestyle, Saturday 28 January. With Roly Luard’s Valegro, the 26 year old rode into second place on 83.650%, just behind the USA’s Steffen Peters and Ravel who clinched the title with 83.700%. USA [...]

1 Feb 2012 Yesterday it was announced that German dressage rider Mathias Alexander Rath will train with Dutch chef d’équipe Sjef Janssen. Since last year, Rath is the rider of famous stallion Totilas. Rath asked Janssen to train him and Totilas, but Janssen agreed in a contract with the Dutch federation that he is not [...]

1 Feb 2012 The Alltech National Horse Show, following its debut at the Kentucky Horse Park last November, on Tuesday evening was awarded the North American Riders Group’s highest ranking for any American horse show. The North American Riders Group (NARG), representing the riders and owners in North America, is comprised of the top horsemen [...]

1 Feb 2012 The 2012 World Dressage Masters Palm Beach presented by International Polo Club Palm Beach exceeded all expections, from the first horse on center line in Friday’s Grand Prix to the victory lap following Saturday’s Exquis Grand Prix Freestyle. Top sport was represented by the world’s most exciting horse and rider combinations, some [...]

31 Jan 2012 In 2011, the fourth edition of the badenclassics, Offenburg’s international 2-stars showjumping event, satisfied riders and spectators by its still increased quality. Offenburg’s exhibition center turned out to be an ideal location for an event of such a size and importance: The Baden-Arena with a surface of 6.600 square meters and bleacher [...]

31 Jan 2012 Iberia, working with Oxer, will continue to support equestrian sport during 2012. This is the tenth consecutive year that the airline will be present at the most important show jumping competitions to be held in Spain. The agreement between Iberia and Oxer was recently confirmed and guarantees the continuity of a sponsor [...]

31 Jan 2012 Mason Phelps, Julie Pickens and Ron Neal flanked by showgirls. LILA PHOTO International Polo Club and Wanderers Club members, International competitors, owners and guests were treated to one of most enjoyable and colorful evenings of the season. The World Dressage Masters Palm Beach (WDM) is the only North American leg of the [...]

31 Jan 2012 On Monday Ute Schäfer, Minister for Family, Children, Youth, Culture and Sport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, visited the grounds of the World Equestrian Festival, CHIO Aachen. The Minister also honoured the Aachen Soers with her presence on the final day of the event last year. She was pleased to accept [...]

31 Jan 2012 HorseWorld Live is an innovative and thrilling addition to the equestrian calendar, a three day extravaganza of equine demonstrations, entertainment and shopping all under one roof at premier exhibition centre, and Olympic venue ExCel London. The international sized ‘World Arena’ will host leading professional and Olympic riders demonstrating their talents and sharing [...]

31 Jan 2012 The United States Dressage Federation (USDF) is pleased to announce approval by its Board of Governors of a US Dressage Finals beginning in 2013.  These finals will be a head to head competition showcasing Adult Amateur and Open riders at Training Level through Grand Prix. With invitations to be extended to competitors [...]

31 Jan 2012 During a press conference following the Grand Prix Special at the 2012 World Dressage Masters Palm Beach on Saturday, January 28th, WDM CEO Anthony Kies announced that the Frankfurt CDI5* will be part of the WDM circuit, beginning December 12th to 16th, 2012. The Frankfurt CDI5* is the only indoor equestrian competition [...]

31 Jan 2012 Over two weeks, Para-Equestrian Dressage riders competed in front of F.E.I. judges Katherine Lucheschi (ITA), Hanneke Gerritsen (NED), and Carlos Lopes (POR), and Marc Urban (BEL) at two CPEDI3* events . This was the first time that Noreen O’Sullivan and her staff graciously hosted two consecutive CPEDI3* competitions (Gold Coast Dressage Opener [...]

31 Jan 2012 The United States Equestrian Team Foundation is pleased to announce that the recipient of the 2012 Lionel Guerrand-Hermes Trophy will be talented show jumping rider Lucy Davis of Los Angeles, CA. Each year this award is presented to a Young Rider in one of the Olympic disciplines who exemplifies both sportsmanship and [...]

31 Jan 2012 The FTI Consulting Winter Equestrian Festival finished its third week of competition with success for hunter, jumpers, and equitation riders. The third week of the FTI WEF was sponsored by Horseware Ireland. The fourth week, sponsored by Adequan, is on February 1-5. The 2012 FTI Winter Equestrian Festival has 12 weeks of [...]

31.1.2012  Dutch dressage rider Adelinde Cornelissen is at the top – at the top of the FEI World Rankings, at the top of Europe (since winning the Individual and Freestyle at the Championships in Rotterdam) and maybe soon at the top of the world at the Olympics in London? Many experts predict so – because [...]

31 Jan 2012 Stadium Jumping, Inc., one of the nation’s leading horse show production companies, is pleased to announce the official dates of the 2012 Tampa Equestrian Festival and 40th Annual $200,000 Gene Mische American Invitational presented by G & C Farm. The world’s top equestrians will come together for two weeks of competition, held [...]

30 Jan 2012 In the future Kathie Offel has to go without one of her most promising young horses – 8-year-old Lacrimoso (Landjunge x Cascavelle). The pair had already considerable placings and victories on 5* level in the youngster tour. The French stud Haras des Coudettes acquired Lacrimoso. His new rider will be French Patrice [...]

30 Jan 2012 During the World Cup in Leipzig Swiss show jumper Pius Schwizer and double Derby winner Achaz von Buchwaldt already walked the course together. Schwizer confirmed that he will train regularly with the ex-coach of the Danish equipe. However, last weekend Achaz von Buchwaldt could not join Pius during the Mercedes CSI in [...]

30 January 2012 Waldenserhof stallion station located in the south of Germany will hold their 5th loose jumping competition for 3 and 4-year-old horses from all German breeding areas on 4 February 2012 starting 10 am. Visitors can have a closer look at the promising offspring of Caretino, Cassini I, Catoki and Staccato. Some of [...]

30 Jan 2012 The horse portal www.dressage-news.com reported that the World Dressage Masters of four €100,000 (US130.000) outdoor competitions plans to expand to four indoor shows beginning with the Frankfurt International Horse Show next December. The disclosure of the expansion to the indoor circuit that could compete directly with the World Cup series – the [...]

30.1.2012 1°  Timothee Anciaume  FRA    Olympique Libellule  0/0   41,57 2°  Karline De Brabandere  BEL    Elvis Ter Putte  0/3   47,08 3°  Marc Dilasser  FRA    Obiwan de Piliere  0/4   40,05 4°  Marc Bettinger  GER    The Lux Effect  0/8   40,36 5°  Victor Kumps  BEL    Bellano van de Bosbeek  4 68,07 6°  Joelle Cairaschi [...]

30 Jan 2012 United States clinched the win over Canada after earning superior scores in the Individual Test competition at the Wellington Classic Sunshine Challenge CPEDI3*. After Thursday’s Team Test results the United States forged ahead in the Team competition. After Saturday’s Individual Tests, the United States secured the win with an 8.14 percentage lead [...]

Int. Dressage Competition Grand Prix Freestyle Pl. Horse Rider   Points 1. Ravel Steffen Peters USA 83700 2. Valegro Charlotte Dujardin GBR 83650 3. Favourit Tinne Vilhelmson-Silfven SWE 78250 4. Wie-Atlantico De Ymas Carl Hester GBR 74850 5. Le Mon d’Or Anja Plönzke GER 74840 6. Calecto V Tina Konyot USA 73025 7. Breaking Dawn [...]

30 Jan 2012 KUTSCHER AND OBOLENSKY ARE IN A CLASS OF THEIR OWN AT ZURICH Germany’s Marco Kutscher steered Cornet Obolensky to victory in the tenth qualifying leg of the Rolex FEI World Cup™ Jumping Western European League 2011/2012 series at Zurich in Switzerland this afternoon.  The 13 year old stallion produced an exhibition of [...]

30 Jan 2012 At the request of the GCT Organizers a poll has been organized by the IJRC. The riders have been asked to chose between these three options: 1) support the IJRC position and the FEI decision : 
take 50% from the total amount of the GCT legs into account for the final ranking [...]

30 Jan 2012 Eighteen-year-old Katie Dinan (USA) and Grant Road Partner’s Nougat Du Vallet led the victory gallop in the $50,000 Horseware Ireland CSI 2* Grand Prix this afternoon at the 2012 FTI Consulting Winter Equestrian Festival (FTI WEF). Running through April 1, 2012, the FTI WEF will award more than $6 million in prize [...]

  Prix VERIT Immobilien AG 08 Int. Team-Jumping Competition 1.35m speed and handiness Pl. Horse Rider Time 1. Milena Maher, Ben GBR 105.47 Djakarta Williams, Guy GBR 105.47 2. Rusedski II Gulliksen, Geir NOR 106.79 Billy Buttercup Gulliksen, Victoria NOR 106.79 3. Viper Arioldi, Roberto ITA 108.77 Jesus de la Commune Moneta, Luca Maria ITA [...]

29.01.2012 11 Int. Jumping Competition Table A in two phases  1.30m/1.35m FEI 274.5.3 – small final Pl. Rider Horse Faults Time 1. Boegh Soerensen Anne Charlotte Winny the Blue d’Ive 0/0 26,73 2. Keunen Pieter Zeus 0/0 26,88 3. lsmeijer Kevin Mister Big 0/0 27,12 4. Wijlaars Frans Vince Black 0/0 27,41 5. Thijssen Leon [...]

29.01.2012 Int. Dressage Competition – Peter Horobin FEI Olympic Grand Prix Special Pl. Horse Rider Points 1. GV BULLWINKLE Rozzie Ryan (NSW) 68.133 2. TANGO V Caroline Wagner (VIC) 64.889 3. PORT SAID 10 Gitte Donvig (VIC) 64.133 4. REGARDEZ MOI Heath Ryan (NSW) 63.867 5. SHEER ETIQUETTE Susan Paix (SA) 63.755 6. PRESTIGE VDL [...]

29 Jan 2012 Yesterday, German jumper Marco Kutscher and his mount Satisfaction FRH (Stakkato x Calypso) won the 1.50 UVEX-Price during the CSI5* Zürich. The pair managed a speedy double clear within 25.91 seconds. Marco Kutscher Kutscher celebrated his victory for which he cashed a cheque of 33.000.-CHF. Runner-up was French Patrice Delaveau with Katchina [...]

29 Jan 2012 Martin Fuchs and Steve Guerdat were named the best Swiss riders of the year 2011. The honours were handed out by the Swiss Federation (VSCR Verband Schweizer Concoursrider) on the occasion of the CSI 5* show in Zürich yesterday. Both show jumpers had ridden the four clear Nations Cup rounds in 2011: [...]

29 Jan 2012 It was a packed house at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center this evening as the women earned their fourth consecutive victory in the $55,000 Nespresso Battle of the Sexes at the FTI Consulting Winter Equestrian Festival. The ladies swept the three phase competition with 29 points over the men’s score of [...]

  Prix UVEX 05 Int. Jumping Competition 1.50m in 2 phases Pl. Horse Rider Faults Time 1. Satisfaction FRH Kutscher, Marco GER 0/0 25.91 2. Katchina Mail Delaveau, Patrice FRA 0/0 27.91 3. Nicos de la Cense Talbot, Niall IRL 0/0 28.38 4. L.B. Callas Sitte Z Liebherr, Christina SUI 0/0 29.00 5. Nangaye de [...]

29 Jan 2012 The readers of the Swiss magazine «PferdeWoche», the biggest Swiss magazine about equestrian sport, have given their votes recently to name the show jumping horse 2011. The honouring ceremony took place during the Mercedes-CSI in Zürich, Switzerland. The show jumping horse of the year 2011 is called Carlina IV and is ridden [...]

29 Jan 2012 At the World Dressage Masters Palm Beach presented by International Polo Club Palm Beach, Adrienne Lyle of the United States bested the international field to win the Grand Prix Special at the Jim Brandon Equestrian Center on Saturday afternoon. The 26 year old Idaho-based rider scored 73.244% riding Wizard, a 13 year [...]

29 Jan 2012 Steffen Peters of the United States successfully defended his World Dressage Masters Palm Beach title on Saturday evening when he rode Ravel to his second consecutive Exquis Grand Prix Freestyle win.  But it wasn’t an easy victory. British challengers Charlotte Dujardin and Valegro came within five one hundredths of a percentage point [...]

29 Jan 2012 THOUGH there have been several top ten places chalked up by Irish riders at the World Cup show in Zurich this weekend, it was Tipperary’s Denis Lynch who recorded the first win when streaking home in tonight’s (Saturday) speed class. Riding Flaminia Straumann’s chestnut gelding Night Train, Lynch finished with over one-and-a-half [...]

29 Jan 2012 It was Adrienne Lyle’s time to shine at the 2012 World Dressage Masters Palm Beach. She rode a fluid and expressive test on Parry and Peggy Thomas’ 12-year-old Oldenberg gelding Wizard, and scored the biggest victory of her career – winning the Grand Prix Special at the World Dressage Masters Palm Beach [...]

28.01.2012 7 Int. Jumping Competition Table A Against the Clock 1.30m – FEI 238.2.1 Pl. Rider Horse Faults Time 1. Tacken Emile Venus 0 49,53 2. Martens Mark Zambezi 0 51,48 3. Bremicker Maximillian Quidibi 0 52,70 4. Keunen Pieter Zeus 0 52,91 5. Schepers Gerrit Cadet 0 54,65 6. Wilson Fernandes Mario Chiquito Z [...]

28.01.2012 Int. Dressage Competition – FEI Intermediate I Freestyle Pl. Horse Rider Points 1. ADLANTA ROSE Sara McDonald (VIC) 69.950 2. GLENQUARRY Camilla Parker (NSW) 66.725 3. KS BEAUCHAMP Robyne D Smith (NSW) 65.575 4. WELTSOHN Roger Fitzhardinge (NSW) 65.400 5. CONCORDANCE Lucy Burt (NSW) 62.625 6. CLIFTON COURT LAURENZ Susan Nevett (VIC) 62.550 7. [...]

28 Jan 2012 Before a packed house at the Jim Brandon Equestrian Center, defending champions Steffen Peters and Ravel scored the first victory of the 2012 World Dressage Masters Palm Beach CDI4*presented by the International Polo Club Palm Beach. They put in a personal best performance in the Grand Prix – and they scored a [...]

28 Jan 2012 Following the draw for order of go at the WDM Palm Beach presented by International Polo Club Palm Beach, the competition for Friday afternoon’s Nürnberger Grand Prix is as follows: 2:00 PM Carl Hester (GBR) Wie Atlantico De Ymas 2:09 PM Yvonne Losos de Muñiz (DOM) Liebling II 2:18 PM Heather Blitz [...]

28 Jan 2012 The Spy Coast Farm 1.40m Speed Challenge had a class full of competitors going against the clock, but the fastest by almost six seconds was Alejandro Karolyi (VEN) on Vichy, owned by Torrey Pines Stable. Photo: Alejandro Karolyi and Vichy, Christel Weller and Kallaway won at the 2012 FTI Consulting Winter Equestrian [...]

28 Jan 2012 American Steffen Peters took a step toward defending his 2011 World Dressage Masters Palm Beach title by winning the WDM Palm Beach Nürnberger Grand Prix test with a record-shattering score of 81.383%. Not only is that a personal best result in a CDI Grand Prix for Peters and Akiko Yamazaki’s 14 year [...]

Welcome Class 01 Int. Jumping Competition (1.35 m) against the clock Quali. for “Mercedes Jump & Drive” Pl. Horse Rider Faults Time 1. Djakarta Williams, Guy GBR 0.00 42.46 2. Jesus de la Commune Moneta, Luca Maria ITA 0.00 43.62 3. Oscar Maher, Ben GBR 0.00 43.76 4. Osiris du Goyen Muff, Werner SUI 0.00 [...]

27.01.2012 4 Int. Jumping Competition Table A in two phases 1.35m – FEI 274.5.3 Pl. Rider Horse Faults Time 1. Rieskamp Goedeking Tim Royale’s Son 0/0 28,84 2. Alicioglu Mert Valdos 0/0 29,31 3. Timgren J. Zanra Z 0/0 29,75 4. Auer Cody Timo 0/0 29,86 5. Hendrix Michel Noble 0/0 30,77 6. vd Vleuten [...]

27.01.2012 Int. Dressage Competition 5B Pl. Horse Rider Points 1. DEBSTAR LP Maree Tomkinson (VIC) 67.236 2. UTOPIAN CARDINAL Heath Ryan (NSW) 66.057 3. REVERENCE F Anne-Catherine Hudson (NSW) 65.041 4. YARRA VALLEY FLEMMINGHA Kate Nash (VIC) 64.634 5. QUINLIN Monica Bird (VIC) 63.374 6. SNAPDRAGON Kathryn Crofts (NSW) 63.130 7. DUCHESS Judy Smith (VIC) [...]

26.01.2012 100 Int.-Jumping Competition Table A with one Jump Off Pl. Horse Rider Faults Time 1. CARLO 273 NICK SKELTON 0/0 38.765 2. UCEKO KENT FARRINGTON 0/0 38.978 3. CANTANO MEREDITH MICHAELS-BEERBAUM 0/0 39.433 4. HH CAROTINO QUENTIN JUDGE 0/0 39.790 5. MERLIN JEFFERY WELLES 0/0 39.978 6. STAR POWER IAN MILLAR 0/0 40.344 7. [...]

27 Jan 2012 Nearly everybody is probably curious how Totilas is doing! Well, since last week the stallion is stationed at Paul Schockemöhle’s stud in Mühlen. The breeding season has started and Totilas is very busy. Totilas is also fully trained by Matthias Rath. The visit of German national coach Holger Schmezer which was planned [...]

27 Jan 2012 In mid-November American show jumper Lauren Hough had a serious fall during the Stuttgart German Masters with her mare Blue Angel. The 34-year-old suffered amongst others three fractured ribs. After two months of convalescence Lauren Hough is back in the saddle and competed at the FTI Winter Equestrian Festival in Wellington, Florida. [...]

27 Jan 2012 German show jumper Rolf Moormann received a fine of 2.500 euros from the FEI, as his horse Londinium had been treated with salicylic acid during the Hanover (Germany) horse show last October. Salicylic acid is an active ingredient known for example from aspirin and is considered being a painkiller and is therefore [...]

Int. Dressage Comp. FEI Intermediate II CDN Pl. Horse Rider Points 1. DIAMANTINA Maree Tomkinson (VIC) 68.579 2. REGARDEZ MOI Heath Ryan (NSW) 67.474 3. RAMBO II Stephanie Spencer (WA) 65.105 4. CARLYLE Nadia Coghlan (NSW) 64.763 5. MAXX JASPER Jodie Newall (NSW) 62.158 6. SHEER ETIQUETTE Susan Paix (SA) 61.368 7. BETTY BLUE Judy [...]

27 Jan 2012 Danish dressage rider Fie Skarsø, who owns a dressage stable in Luxemburg, cooperates again with her former employer, the German stud Wiesenhof. Fie Skarsø currently has three horses in training from the German stallion station:  the 6-year-old Salome (by Sandro King), the 5-year-old Kadensky (by Münchhausen) and the 6-year-old gelding For My [...]

27 Jan 2012 The dressage world descends upon the Jim Brandon Equestrian Center in West Palm Beach, FL for the 2012 World Dressage Masters Palm Beach presented by International Polo Club Palm Beach. Fifteen riders from six countries have accepted invitations to compete at the prestigious event which runs January 26-28 at the CDI5* level. [...]