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Members of the Iveagh Branch of the Pony Club have recently completed a hugely successful project to preserve the rich 50 year history their Branch. The project which was very generously funded by The Heritage Lottery Fund culminated in the production of a beautiful book and a fascinating, lively and fun film. The book, [...]
The rain stopped and the sun came out for the third leg of the Laurel View Indoor Derby League on the second of the second. Sixties were the first to get things swinging and competitors got excellent value for their money as jump offs were needed to decide the results. A quick clear jump [...]
TODAY (Wednesday) saw yet another opening day win for Ireland’s Shane Sweetnam with the Irish Sport Horse Solerina in the $34,000 1m45 speed class at Florida’s Winter Festival (WEF). Sweetnam has had an outstanding winter circuit in Florida so far, with wins in four very competitive FEI World Ranking classes, among other top finishes. “I [...]
The Iveagh Branch of the Pony Club has scheduled a massive inter-schools show at Moyallon on Saturday 12th April 2014. All primary schools and secondary schools are invited to attend and it is hoped that as many schools as possible will accept the invitation and send teams along to this fun and competitive day. In [...]
Knockagh View Equestrian centre held an All Silver Showjumping day on Sunday, all competitors who won their class had a lovely trophy to take home. There were super entries which made for good competitive classes. Our little riders started off the day with lots of clears in the 30cm class, a draw for the placings [...]
Results of Pony jumping held on Friday 7th March Cross Poles 1st Duncan, Ellen McDonald won the trophy; Special; Dandy, Caitlyn Patterson. 40cm 1st Toby, Robert Russell won the Scott Murry Trophy; 2nd Merlin, Emma Burns; 3rd Skip, Lara McComb; 4th Boss Man, Kieva Milligan; also double clear; Duncan, Ellen McDonald. 50cm 1st Toffee, Shannon [...]
Kernan Equestrian Centre Spring SJI Horse & Pony League Results Sunday 9th March 2014 HORSES 90cm- 1,T. Carragher’s Watchful Eye (Hannah Joyce); 1m- 1,M. McShane’s MMS Camilla (Mary McShane); 1, D. Vallely’s Flagstaff Dream (Deidre Vallely); 1.10m- 1,E. Hanratty’s Right Touch (Siobhan Hanratty); 1, J. Morton’s Patch Mills Laura (Abby Morton); 1, S. Hanley’s [...]
The sixth week of the SJI Horse League at Connell, with four weeks remaining before the final on Saturday 26th April, saw the car parks fill with not only horse boxes and lorries but cars with spectators as competitors arrived in full show attire to take the challenge of jumping some technical tracks. These tracks [...]
On the last Sunday of January at Laurel View walk/trot competitors tackled BD Intro B in front of Martina McKinley; her scoring placed Leah Knight and Liberty Blue in the top spot earning them a red ribbon, with Alfie and Santiago Guieirrez a shade behind in second. Zoe Briggs and Oscar topped the Newcomers [...]
Down Royal Racecourse and the Daily Mirror are joining forces to bring our racegoers a fantastic St Patrick’s Day race meeting on Monday 17th March. Gates are set to open at 12noon ahead of racing kicking off at 1.45pm (approx.), with seven races in total running right until the final race at 4.45pm (approx.). Admission is [...]
The Friday night Training Show at Connell Hill saw some super rounds of jumping by ponies and horses some of which were old hands at the game and then the very novice being introduced to an indoor colourful course of fences designed to encourage forwardness with confidence. The indoor facilities with first a class surface [...]
Derry’s Daniel Coyle may have been the man on form at Ravensdale Lodge last Sunday as he collected his third Spring Tour Grand Prix in a row at the centre but it was local riders who won the lion’s share of the prize fund in the early classes. Talented young rider, Ellie Hughes from Carlingford [...]
RIDING the Irish Sport Horse gelding Corbeagh Luxor, former World Show Jumping Champion Dermott Lennon won the three-star Vilamoura Grand Prix in Portugal by recording the only double clear round of the contest today (Sunday). Forty-four year old Lennon won 15,000 euro for his achievement, and saw off challenges from top German rider Marc Bettinger [...]
Crosskennan Lane Animal Sanctuary,CLAS. in Antrim was established in 1996 and was the first educational equine welfare charity set up in Northern Ireland. The charity is concerned with the rescue and rehabilitation of animals, in particular horses and ponies, but also dogs, cats and chickens that have been abused and neglected. At CLAS the animals [...]
Sunday 16th March will see Omagh RDA once again bring out the Dressage arena, for its latest Dressage event. This one day show will see new tests being used for competitors, with Dressage Ireland tests being used for the very first time at the Arvalee based centre. Commencing the event will be Riding for Disabled [...]
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, [...]
