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HORSE Sport Ireland has announced the dates and venues for the 2015 Irish Sport Horse Studbook Showjumping Series. The Series, which is made up of classes for 5, 6 and 7 year old horses, celebrates its tenth year in existence in 2015. Over the decade, the Series has gone from strength to strength with entry [...]
Week ending 15th February 2015, results Ravensdale Lodge Equestrian & Event Centre. It was a busy couple of weeks of pony jumping at Ravensdale Lodge which peaked on 14th February when the Pony Spring Tour kicked off at the scenic North Louth venue, Show organisers had broken with tradition over the preceding weeks by running [...]
Eventing Ireland is delighted to announce a new sponsor for 2015. Kilguilkey House will be sponsoring an EI90 league over five legs. The overall league winner will be presented with two cross country schooling fences worth €1500, built by international course builder Danny Dulohery. The five legs will take place in each region, starting [...]
Knockagh View equestrian centre, Greenisland held an all silver show jumping day on Sunday. Young Kristie Wilson was on a roll drawing the trophy in 3 classes! Adam Adair and his pony Joey won the trophy in the 30cm class with older brother Alfie winning the trophy in the 60cm class! Rachel Lockyear jumped a [...]
December 13th in Ballycastle, a group of over 30 festively dressed horses, riders (and even dogs!) raised £1300 for charity, with subsequent donations being made after people saw the event covered in local newspapers. The final total was £1500.26p, a massive sum of money from the very generous people of Ballycastle and surrounding area. The [...]
IRELAND’S Kevin Babington kept up his sparkling form at the four-star show in Ocala, Florida, with a second place in Sunday’s Grand Prix. Following their two clear rounds in Friday’s US Nations’ Cup that helped the Irish team claim outright victory, Tipperary-born Babington tonight again partnered the ten year-old mare Shorapur, and came within a [...]
On Saturday 14th February 2015, 17 Route hunt members and visitors met at Killeague West the home of Campbell And Helen Smith. Hunt Master Philip White welcomed everyone to the meet , thanked Campbell and all involved in setting up the hunt and asked all to join in singing Happy Birthday to Florence Campbell nee [...]
HORSE Sport Ireland, the Governing Body for equestrian sport in Ireland, has commented on the news, featured in the Irish Field, that two clones of the great Irish stallion Cruising will be available to Irish Sport Horse breeders in 2015. Horse Sport Ireland also operates the Irish Sport Horse Studbook. The McCann family of Hartwell [...]
A cold, frosty winter’s day didn’t deter everyone from the Winter Working Hunter Show at Laurel View on 1st February. The team at Laurel View are very grateful to the competitors who came from far and near despite the possibilities of getting frostbit! Kirsty and Courtney Stuart cast their knowledgeable eyes over the horse competitors [...]
THE Irish show jumping team of Darragh Kenny, Lorcan Gallagher, Kevin Babington and Conor Swail swept to victory in Friday’s FEI Furusiyya Nations’ Cup in Ocala, Florida, finishing on a total of just four faults. Ireland’s victory was made remarkable by the fact that all four horses had not competed at Nations’ Cup level before, [...]
Tattersalls International Horse Trials & Country Fair in association with Horse Sport Ireland is delighted to announce Horsezone.co.uk as sponsors of their Live Video Streaming platform for the 2015 event. 2014 was the first year that Tattersalls introduced Live Streaming and it proved to be extremely popular across the world with over 130,000 people tuning into the [...]
IRISH show jumping manager Robert Splaine on Wednesday announced his squad for the first Nations’ Cup of 2015, which takes place in Ocala, Florida on Friday night. Ireland’s squad of five, from which Splaine will select a team of four on Thursday, is as follows: Darragh Kerins/D Elia Van Het Molenhof Darragh Kenny/Picolo Conor Swail/Grafton [...]
SMWRC geared up for the start of their ever popular dressage league by hosting a sponsor’s evening on Tuesday 27th January 2015. It was a great opportunity for the club to say a big thank you to the generous sponsors and also see some of the fantastic prizes up for grabs. The Club would like [...]
Saturday 7th February saw the first event of the 2015 calendar, Dressage For All Spring League, successfully taking place at Mill Yard Equestrian Centre, Anahilt, Hillsborough. With classes ranging from Intro (walk/trot only) to Preliminary and Novice there was something for everyone and some very nice tests were being ridden. Thanks to everyone who supported the [...]
The latest round of the Equestrian Interschools Ireland League was held on Saturday 7th February and hosted by Kernan Equestrian Centre, Crossmaglen Co. Armagh. James Kernan the proprietor built the courses for both the Novice and Open team and individual events. The schools taking part were: ScoilMhuire,Trim; Our Lady’s Castleblaney and Monaghan Collegiate in the [...]
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, [...]
