Breeding
Cavan’s JUNE PERFORMANCE SALE of HORSES & PONIES takes place on Tuesday 22nd June. This sale has a quality and a varied selection catalogued and is sure to get the summer sale season off to an excellent start. The sale will run in the usual order starting the day with ponies and then moving [...]
With eight weeks until Balmoral Show, national showjumping qualifiers kick of this Saturday 19th March at Cavan Equestrian Centre. Rhonda Geary, RUAS Operations Director commented “We are looking forward to another year of superb national showjumping, and to welcoming the qualifying combinations to Balmoral Show over the 11th-13th May”. National competitions are restricted to those [...]
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The Northern Ireland leg of the Horse Sport Ireland Foal Championships are to be held at the Meadows Equestrian Centre, Lurgan on 1st August 2015. The event will also play host to the Regional Championships that have been kindly funded by the Northern Ireland Horse Board. The aim of the Championships is to “identify, [...]
CORK native, Alan O’Regan, riding his mother Frances’ Guidam (SF) gelding, Liberation (ISH), were victorious in the 7 Year Old Final of the sixth leg of the Irish Sport Horse Studbook Showjumping Series at Cork Summer Show. There was a total of €9,500 on offer in prize money from Horse Sport Ireland at this leg [...]
Irish Sport Horse Studbook Showjumping Series – Lissyegan Lui Royale (ISH) and Damien Griffin take 7 Year Old Final GALWAY native, Damien Griffin, riding Margaret Griffin’s Lissyegan Lui Royale (ISH) took the 7 Year Old Final of the Irish Sport Horse Studbook Showjumping Series at Galway County Show on Sunday. Seven horses made it through [...]
Horse Sport Ireland has announced today the list of successful projects that will benefit from its recently advertised Innovation Fund. The funding for the scheme came from the additional €600,000 allocated by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine to Horse Sport Ireland, announced by Minister Simon Coveney in the 2015 budget. Following public [...]
OFFALY-born rider Darragh Kenny produced a second place at the five-star show in Wellington, Florida last Friday night, missing out on the top prize by just three quarters of a second. The evening’s feature speed competition saw the 27 year-old US-based rider claim one of 13 clear rounds in the competition aboard the Spruce Meadows-owned [...]
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 [...]
Stallion Selections for the Irish Sport Horse Studbook and the Irish Draught Horse Studbook will be held by Horse Sport Ireland (HSI) at Cavan Equestrian Centre commencing on 25th March 2015. New for this year: HSI has provided the option to stallion owners to complete the veterinary phase of the stallion selection process in advance of the [...]
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A new equine veterinary hospital is opening in Greenmount Park adjacent to Limerick Racecourse this Saturday. The hospital is located within the grounds of the old Greenmount Stud and the facility has been reinvigorated to create a centre of excellence for equine care.
Ingmar De Vos (BEL) was elected as President of the Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI) yesterday by an overwhelming majority in the first round of voting, earning 98 votes out of a possible 131. De Vos, 51, Secretary General of the FEI since May 2011, was elected to take charge of the world governing body of [...]
SHANE Breen grabbed Ireland’s biggest prize pot of the weekend so far when finishing first in Friday’s feature class at the five-star show jumping fixture in La Coruna, Spain. The Tipperary rider out-jumped a top 38-strong field to collect 30,000 euro with a double clear round on the nine year-old stallion Farao van’t Vennehof, with [...]
HORSE Sport Ireland (HSI) has published the report outlining the recommendations of the Irish Draught Horse Studbook Breeding Policy Review Taskforce. The Breeding Sub Board and the Main Board of HSI have both agreed the recommendations and the changes will be implemented in 2015. The review of the Irish Draught Horse Breeding Policy was conducted by [...]
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, [...]
