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Laurel View horses and ponies got a special New Year Makeover on New Year’s Day. Over the Christmas and New Year holiday period the riding school horses and ponies get a break from their regular ride routine, if the weather is favourable they escape to the fields to get their heads showered. But for the [...]
Ecclesville Centre, Fintona welcomed many of its regular competitors to the first of their Training Shows on Friday evening with all the classes being well supported. Raymond Caldwell built flowing courses to ease everyone back into competition after the winter break. The Training Shows will continue for the next four Friday evenings, commencing at 6.15pm [...]
THE Wellington Dressage CDI-W at the 2013 Adequan Global Dressage Festival (AGDF) in Florida USA drew to a close today (Sunday) with an Irish win. The featured class was the FEI Intermediare Freestyle. First place in the $6,000 FEI Intermediare Freestyle went to Ireland’s Sonia Zugel riding her mount Ungaro (Weltmeyer II x Wendekreis) with [...]
IRISH riders have chalked up two wins in the last 24 hours at this weekend’s international shows, with Limerick’s Shane Carey tasting victory today (Saturday) in Austria, and Kilkenny-born Marion Hughes taking the honours at Dubai on Friday. Hughes’s win came in the searing heat of the United Arab Emirates yesterday evening, where she steered [...]
Laurel View Riding School Christmas Show has become a very popular annual event. The third show on Saturday 22nd December 2012 was no exception with fifteen teams turning out in fine form for a fantastic day of festive fun and show jumping. The mulled drinks were flowing and the mince pies nicely warmed. Snowmen and [...]
PATRICK Wall has been appointed as the new Chairman of Horse Sport Ireland following his nomination by Minister for Transport, Tourism & Sport Leo Varadkar, it was announced today (Thursday). Patrick Wall is Professor of Public Health at University College Dublin, and is qualified both as a veterinary surgeon and a medical doctor. He was [...]
While it might still feel like the “depths of winter” and man & beast forgiven for remaining in hibernation, all at Ravensdale Lodge were glad to throw the doors open to the new competition season during the week. Well rested from the competition break of the past few weeks it was good to see some [...]
Strule Valley Riding Club Est 1997 Arena Eventing Competition Sunday 17th February 2013 1.30 pm Ecclesville, Fintona Classes 70cm 80cm 90cm 1 metre 1 metre 10 Everyone welcome – for more information phone Alison Donnell, Secretary on 82 246652/07835998979
Sunday 27th January saw the third show in Lime Park Equestrian’s Indoor Show Jumping League. Next Show Jumping is THE FINAL on SUNDAY 3RD FEBRUARY 2013. . To qualify riders must have jumped 2 out of the 3 shows and the final. Competitions are Beginners / Warm up (which is suitable for lead rein or [...]
With preparations for Journey Europe at a fevered pace and our living room looking like part tack room part crime scene we took some time off on Sunday to visit some friends and enjoy some music. If you’ve read the “Our Story” page you will know a little about Popcorn. She and her mother were [...]
The following competitions are organised by Eventing Ireland: 02 Feb NR Try/Flexi Eventing 3, The Meadows EC 02 Feb WR Training, Slieve Aughty 03 Feb MR Combined Training 2, Maryville 03 Feb WR Try Eventing 1, Milchem EC 03 Feb SL Combined Training 1, Coilog 09 Feb NR Try/Flexi Eventing 4, The Meadows EC 10 [...]
A very successful show jumping point’s league came to an exciting and well supported conclusion on the 19th December at Laurel View. Accumulating the most points over the 12 week league to take the red league rosette over the 40 cm course was Katelyn Irvine and Pedro, with Megan Ingram and Thizbee a close second. [...]
A NUMBER of major changes are being introduced to this year’s National Dressage Championships. They include changes to the structure of the team championship while introducing a qualification system for the individual championships. From this year, clubs will now be permitted to enter teams of three or four riders and these must contain no more [...]
Castle Leslie Equestrian Centre is delighted to welcome back top Dressage Rider Yvette Truesdale on Saturday 30th March 2013. Yvette will conduct a demo with her horse, ‘Has to be Fun’ , a 15 year old Grand Prix Dressage Horse who was Yvette’s partner at the Windsor Europeans and the winner of the Grand Prix at the [...]
(Scroll down for full report from N.I.W.H.A.) The weather in Northern Ireland has a lot to answer for, prior to Sunday we thought the show would not run because of ice but come the day it was rain that had the last laugh! It poured all morning and competitors and organisers alike were soaked though [...]
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, [...]
