Dressage
Castle Leslie Equestrian Centre is delighted to welcome back top Dressage Rider Yvette Truesdale on Saturday 30th & Sunday 31st March 2013. Yvette will conduct a demo on 30th March with her horse, ‘Fun’, a 15 year old Grand Prix Dressage Horse who was Yvette’s partner at the Windsor Europeans and the winner of the [...]
Ireland’s first musical dressage workshop & Irish premiere of acclaimed short film “The Equestrian” The Irish premiere of the much acclaimed short film “The Equestrian” will take place Saturday 2nd March in Kilshane House, County Tipperary. On the day, a special Dressage Workshop to help riders learn how to choose the perfect music to suit their [...]
Ards riding club have been busy with club activities to get the equestrian action started early in 2013. Below are the results from a number of popular club events. Show Jumping Round 1 Wednesday 23RD January First round of the Show Jumping league Senior Novice -1st Louise Mc Minn/Bravo Junior Novice- Megan Boyd/ Star Senior [...]
A fantastic day of dressage at Laurel View on 13th January, long and a tad on the cold, miserable side, but a great show all the same. McCracken and Katherine Hall had the BD Intro B test cracked according to Geraldine Lowry’s results, with Digby and Erin Mathieson, taking home blue. Newcomers rode Prelim 7 [...]
Saturday 9th February saw the popular Dressage For All Spring League continue at Mill Yard Equestrian Centre, Anahilt, Hillsborough. The league is open to everyone and classes range from Walk/Trot only tests, Preliminary and Novice. The 3 week league finishes with the final on Saturday 16th February. Horse and rider combinations need to compete at 1 qualifier [...]
Dressage Ireland announced today that Anne Cahill is the new chairman. Anne was appointed at a board meeting yesterday [Tuesday, February 12, 2013]. Her first involvement with dressage was over twenty years ago when helping to organise the Eventing Ireland Blarney One Day Event. For nearly a decade from 1996 she helped run the Blarney Dressage [...]
A lovely sunny day on Saturday 2nd February saw a great start to the Dressage For All Spring League at Mill Yard Equestrian Centre, Anahilt, Hillsborough. The league is open to everyone and classes range from Walk/Trot only tests, Preliminary and Novice. The 3 week league finishes with the final on Saturday 16th February. Horse and rider [...]
Week ending 10th February 2013, results Ravensdale Lodge Equestrian & Event Centre Indoor horse training show Thursday 7th February. 70cm class, divided between: Mary Cosgrove’s Rio (M. Cosgrove), Linda Mc Cabe’s Tikka (L. Mc Cabe) & Mandy King’s Polo (M. King). 80cm class: No clear rounds. 90cm class, divided between: Grace O’ Shaughnessy’s The Biscuit [...]
It was certainly a case of all roads leading to The Meadows on Saturday where the Lurgan Equestrian Centre was a hive of eventing activity. With almost 100 dressage entries, the judges, Vanda Robinson, Lynsey Craig and Fiona Morrow were kept occupied until after 3pm. Meantime the showjumping got underway ahead of schedule and continued [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
STRULE VALLEY RIDING CLUB in Omagh, Co Tyrone held a dressage competition recently at the RDA, Arvalee, Omagh by kind permission of Omagh Riding for the Disabled Association. Riders & their horses travelled from different parts of the country to compete – Strabane, Cookstown, Trillick, Enniskillen, Eglinton, Sion Mills & Omagh. Special thanks to judge Myra [...]
Welcome to our new website for 2013! We would like to introduce you firstly to our new look home page featuring our latest news articles in headlines and photographs so you get to read the freshest stories and articles without even having to look for them. You can still select your favourite discipline from our [...]
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, [...]
