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Daniels takes second in Camphire Three-star, O’Connor Third

Daniels takes second in Camphire Three-star, O’Connor Third

| July 29, 2015

EIGHTEEN year-old Cathal Daniels scored a notable second place in the main feature class at Camphire International Horse Trials in Co. Waterford this afternoon (Sunday). Daniels, who has already been selected for the GAIN Horse Feeds Young Rider Eventing Squad that will compete for Ireland in the 2015 European Championships in Strzegom, Poland next month, [...]

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Lynch third in London Five-Star Jump Off

Lynch third in London Five-Star Jump Off

| July 28, 2015

TIPPERARY’S Denis Lynch came away almost 14,000 euro richer after finishing third in today’s (Sunday) feature class at the five-star Longines show in London. Competing in the Massimo Dutti Trophy competition, the Irish rider and Thomas Straumann’s bay gelding All Star 5 were one of 14 combinations to make it through to the jump-off round, [...]

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Splaine Confirms Squad For Aga Khan at RDS Dublin Horse Show

Splaine Confirms Squad For Aga Khan at RDS Dublin Horse Show

| July 22, 2015

Horse Sport Ireland confirms Investec Irish Show Jumping squad for the 2015 Aga Khan Cup at the Discover Ireland Dublin Horse Show THE Investec Irish show jumping squad to represent Ireland at the 2015 Aga Khan trophy competition which will take place at the Discover Ireland Dublin Horse Show on August 7th has been named. [...]

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Lennon and O’Connor Take Top Two Places in Swedish Speed Class

Lennon and O’Connor Take Top Two Places in Swedish Speed Class

| July 17, 2015

IRELAND’S former world champion show jumper Dermott Lennon claimed the top spot in Friday’s speed class at the five-star show in Falsterbo, Sweden, with Olympic bronze medallist Cian O’Connor close behind in second place. Co. Down’s Lennon, third to jump in a field of 29, set a blistering time of 70.49 seconds with the 13 [...]

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Authoritative German victory on Home Ground at Hagen

Authoritative German victory on Home Ground at Hagen

| July 15, 2015

Team Germany were in a league of their own when winning the fourth leg of the FEI Nations Cup™ Dressage 2015 pilot series on home soil in Hagen today. With three scores in excess of 70 per cent and a massive 81.160 for last-line rider, Kristina Broring-Sprehe with Desperados FRH, they finished more than 15 [...]

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Liberation and Alan O’Regan take Cork leg of the ISH Studbook Series

Liberation and Alan O’Regan take Cork leg of the ISH Studbook Series

| July 14, 2015

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 [...]

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Broderick Third in Portugal’s Global Champions Tour Grand Prix

Broderick Third in Portugal’s Global Champions Tour Grand Prix

| July 14, 2015

THREE Irish riders finished in the top ten of the Global Champions Tour Grand Prix in Portugal tonight (Saturday), but the laurels went to third-placed Greg Broderick, who made his podium debut in the series with a third place on the Irish Sport Horse MHS Going Global. A tough first two rounds saw only four [...]

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Flawless Dutch Scoop Furusiyya Victory At Faltersbo

Flawless Dutch Scoop Furusiyya Victory At Faltersbo

| July 13, 2015

The Dutch showed precisely why they are the reigning World and defending Furusiyya champions when soaring to victory at the sixth leg of the Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup™ Jumping Europe Division 1 League in Falsterbo, Sweden today. It took just three of the four members of Rob Ehrens’ side to clinch it when Harrie Smolders, [...]

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Michael Jung Returns to Eventing World Number One Spot

Michael Jung Returns to Eventing World Number One Spot

| July 10, 2015

Michael Jung (GER) is back as world Eventing number one after his brilliant third-place finish with La Biosthetique Sam FBW at last month’s Luhmühlen CCI4* (GER) presented by DHL, fifth leg of the FEI Classics™. Switch back Jung (32) jumped to the top of the FEI World Eventing Rankings in May for the first time [...]

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Speirs Rides Two Winners in ISH Eventing Series at Ballinamona

Speirs Rides Two Winners in ISH Eventing Series at Ballinamona

| July 8, 2015

CAMILLA Speirs took the 6 Year-Old trophy in the ISH Eventing series with Loughnavatta Cedar (ISH) at Ballinamona last weekend. Written by Colin McClelland The winner is a bay gelding by Luidam (KWPN) out of the Dam Ballydoolagh Aimee Sunrise (ISH) and was bred by owner Rory Costigan. Second was Kilroe Free And Easy (ISH) [...]

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Wins for Foley and O’Connor in USA and Netherlands

Wins for Foley and O’Connor in USA and Netherlands

| July 8, 2015

YOUNG Rider Tom Foley scored an impressive win at the three-star show in Tryon, USA last Wednesday, while Olympic medallist Cian O’Connor was victorious the following day at Arnhem’s three-star in the Netherlands. Written by Colin McClelland Nineteen year-old Foley, riding Spy Coast Farm’s mare Beluga, was the only one of 39 starters to break [...]

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Sweetnam takes second in Spruce Meadows Grand Prix

Sweetnam takes second in Spruce Meadows Grand Prix

| July 7, 2015

CORK’S Shane Sweetnam came very close to delivering a fourth major win for Ireland this weekend when he placed second in the four-star Grand Prix in Spruce Meadows, Canada on Sunday. The 34 year-old, piloting Spy Coast Farm’s stallion Chaqui Z, registered one of just five double clears in the contest, but was just over [...]

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Connolly’s RED MILLS Brand Ambassadors Enjoy Incredible Weekend

Connolly’s RED MILLS Brand Ambassadors Enjoy Incredible Weekend

| July 7, 2015

Connolly’s RED MILLS Brand Ambassadors Dermott Lennon, Trevor Breen, Bertram Allen and Billy Twomey all produced stunning performances with their super-star horses this weekend, in Ireland the UK and mainland Europe. Co Down’s Dermott Lennon began the Team RED MILLS March when he added yet another major win to his list of achievements, triumphing in [...]

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Breen wins Hickstead Derby, Allen takes Netherlands Grand Prix

Breen wins Hickstead Derby, Allen takes Netherlands Grand Prix

| July 1, 2015

IN a notable double for Ireland, Sunday saw two major international wins when 19 year-old Bertram Allen and Molly Malone V won the Geesteren Grand Prix in the Netherlands, and Trevor Breen claimed the famous Hickstead Derby for the second year in a row. Written by Colin McClelland Tipperary native Breen, who last year won [...]

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Record Irish Score For Reynolds in Rotterdam

Record Irish Score For Reynolds in Rotterdam

| June 25, 2015

Judy Reynolds set a new Irish international Grand Prix record score of 73.88% when placing fourth, with Joe & Kathleen Reynolds’ 13-year-old Jazz gelding Vancouver K, at the three-star show in Rotterdam, The Netherlands on Friday. Written by Paul Nolan The previous Irish record score of 73.23% was set by Irish Olympian Anna Merveldt and [...]

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