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Note from Horse Sport Ireland: EVENTING High Performance Manager Nick Turner has named the six combinations that will represent Ireland at the European Eventing Championships in Malmo from August 29 to September 1. The squad in alphabetical order is: Aoife Clark/Master Crusoe (owned by Lily White Syndicate) Jonty Evans/Double Dutch (owned by Otto van der [...]
The final day started off at 8am with the final trot up of the competition. All the team Ireland ponies passed first time and were set to complete the rest of the competition. As a team we walked our showjumping course with team trainer Tom Slattery. The course had a few awkward lines but we [...]
FOURTEEN year-old Susan Fitzpatrick from Kilkenny added to Ireland’s haul of medals at the European Pony Championships when collecting the Individual Show Jumping Gold at Arezzo, Italy this evening (Sunday). Riding Barbara O’Reilly-Hyland’s Rock Dee Jay, Fitzpatrick went into the final round carrying four faults, but a steady head left her without further penalties, and [...]
SJI registered horse & pony league final, Wednesday 24th July. Horses: 90cm class, # 1 Janine Farrell’s Blackmoor Heather (J. Farrell) 28.17 seconds, # 2 Aimee O’ Farrell’s Mn Cascadeur (A. O’ Farrell) 32,59 seconds. Also double clear: Maria Quigley’s Lissangle Lux Pride (H. Joyce), Eileen Duggan’s Libero Flight (E. Duggan) & Paula [...]
Congratulations to the Irish Pony European Championship team which has won a bronze medal today at Arezzo! Gold was won by Great Britain with a score of 142.2. France was second on 144 and Ireland third on 150.9. Individual results as follows: Team Rider Pony Dressage XC SJ Total Place Shannon Nelson Millridge Buachaill Bui 47.30 [...]
Cross Country started of with a lot of nervous riders ready to take on the challenging course that is designed to last 7 minutes 9 secs. I kicked off the day feeling slightly nervous as I had no feed back from the rest of the team on how the course was riding because of my [...]
All the ponies and riders arrived on Sunday and quickly settled down after a 4 day trip to arezzo,Italy. We began training in 40 degree heat on Monday morning with dressage trainer Sue Smallman. Baxter (Holiday Chase) went really well and went from strength to strength from day 1 of training to the competition. I [...]
We will be adding photographs and results from Antrim show throughout the day to this page, so come back again soon to view the action from this popular show in Shanes Castle. Antrim Show 2013 Results So Far… Class 462 – Family Pony Class 113 – Lucy Doonan 70 – Tracey Conn – Sweetwall Pepper [...]
The Race horse to riding horse association are working with Coilog Equestrian Kildare to hold a Charity show with proceeds going to the injured jockeys fund – John Jo Bright from Antrim and JT Mcnamara from Cork. It will take place on the 18th august and as you can see from the schedule there are [...]
Giltspur Scientific, a local Ballyclare company who specialise manufacture HorseSlips, shoes for lame cattle and horses, has recently sponsored local eventing pony rider Holly Wray. Holly is the only member of the Irish Pony Eventing European Team to be selected from Northern Ireland and has travelled out to Arezzo, Italy this week for the 2013 [...]
Ecclesville Equestrian Centre, Fintona is the venue for a one day un-registered Show scheduled for Sunday 4 August. ASDA, AJS Promotions, Omagh Equestrian and Countrywear and Omagh Sports Forum have very generously sponsored the prizes and rosettes for this Show. With excellent prize money and equestrian items for the winners of the classes the organisers [...]
The 60cm was a bit of a slow start for the Laurel View Derby competition on the last day of June but plenty of fun for the competitors all the same, Nuala McNally and Diego, showed a clean pair of heels to secure 1st place, while Ewan Hall on Sinetta picked up a few faults [...]
The Irish Draught Horse Society Ltd of Northern Ireland along with CAFRE are holding a Demonstration Evening, “Preparing Mares for Inspection”, on Wednesday 14th August 2013 at Portmore Equestrian Centre. The aim of the evening is to encourage people to bring their horses out to the inspections, which are being held in Northern Ireland in [...]
Sunshine, horse racing and Magners – the perfect combination for a Friday evening! Come and join us for the Magners Race evening on Friday 26th July at Down Royal. Our gates will open at 4pm with the first race kicking off at 5.40pm (approx.) and the seventh and final race at 8.50pm (approx.). General admission [...]
Gransha Riding Club are beginning preparations for their new charity show to be held at Gransha Equestrian Centre on Saturday 7th September. Chest Heart and Stroke, and Marie Curie Cancer Care are the two nominated charities to be supported by the show. There will be classes for horse and pony Show Jumping and Working Hunter [...]
Balmoral Thursday Showing Results
Yearlings 21 COLT or GELDING, foaled in 2016, thoroughbred and non thoroughbred, entered in their respective stud book, likely to make a high class performer. Prize Cat. No Cat. Name Details 1st 53 Gibson, Mr Desmond ROLEX 2nd 60 O Gorman, Mr Kieran MURPHY 2 3rd 58 Martin, Mrs Pat CLOVER CHOICE 4th 55 Kirkpatrick, Mrs [...]
Balmoral Results Wednesday 10th May 2017
28 MARE or GELDING, 4 years old, capable of carrying over 14st [89kg]. Prize Cat. No Cat. Name Details 1st 137 Tierney Mrs Daphne BLOOMFIELD BADGER 2nd 134 McElligott, Richard F PUSHKIN 3rd 136 Rothwell, Mr. Derry GREENHALL HUNTSMAN 4th 139 Williams, Mr Ian MARLFIELD 5th 138 Wallace, Mr Trevor APPLE JACK 29 MARE or GELDING, 4 [...]
Knotts Bakery Sponsor Young Event Horse Championship
The RUAS are delighted to announce that Knotts Bakery is continuing their sponsorship of the Young Event Horse Championship at Balmoral Show 2017. There will be four year old and five year old classes which aim to identify high calibre horses bred in Ireland with the potential to become top class eventers. The Knotts Bakery [...]
RUAS Launch Four Day Balmoral Show
The Royal Ulster Agricultural Society (RUAS) today launched the 149th Balmoral Show in partnership with Ulster Bank. This year’s Show will provide an exciting mix of food, farming excellence and showmanship alongside an exhilarating entertainment schedule from 10th – 13th May 2017. With many new additions to the Show, news of a fourth day is proving the most [...]
Dublin Horse Show Officially Launched
Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Shane Ross TD officially launched the Dublin Horse Show today June 15th at the RDS, Dublin. The participation of many Rio-bound gold medal hopefuls at this year’s Dublin Horse Show means a change from the traditional August dates to July 20-24 for this summer institution. Despite the earlier date, [...]
