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European
Dressage News
British Horse Society grants Honorary Fellowship
to Ferdi Eilberg
 The
British Horse Society is delighted to announce that
it has granted an Honorary Fellowship to Ferdi Eilberg,
renowned dressage trainer and rider, in recognition
of his services to horsemanship. He has been closely
involved with the BHS for many years and leads the Society’s
Fellowship courses which are sponsored by the Worshipful
Company of Saddlers.
Granting the Fellowship is the highest accolade the
Society can bestow on a trainer as it represents the
pinnacle of equestrian professional qualifications.
There are just 53 BHS Fellows and of these only Christopher
Bartle is an Honorary appointment, all the others having
taken an examination.
Ferdi, who is 49 years old and based in Worcestershire,
spent his early life in Germany, serving an apprenticeship
with Olympic Gold medallist Dr Reiner Klimke before
coming to England in 1980.
Eleven years later Ferdi took out British citizenship
and has achieved major successes as a top-level dressage
competitor in this country including representing Great
Britain at two European Championships, in 1993 and 1995,
and at the World Equestrian Games in 1994.
 In
2002 Ferdi was appointed as the British Equestrian Federation’s
World Class Performance Director of Coaching and is
now the BEF Acting World Class Performance Manager and
Director of Coaching. In January this year he led a
two-day clinic for BHS Scotland at Gleneagles Equestrian
Centre, an event that proved very popular and successful.
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