International
Irish duo Billy Twomey and Shane Breen, were both “overwhelmed” with the
reaction of the Chinese public, on the opening day of the Longines Global
Champions Tour of Shanghai today (Friday), as the country witnessed five
star show jumping action for the very first time.
Written by Louise Parkes In one of the most exciting battles of the season so far, a determined British team pipped Spain by a single point to win the fourth leg of the Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup™ Jumping Europe Division 1 League at St Gallen in Switzerland this afternoon. The host country sent out a [...]
Seventeen year old Mayo show jumper Michael Duffy has continued his winning streak, by taking the top prize in Sunday’s two-phase competition at the 3 star show at Lisbon.Portugal. The Knockmore rider beat of the challange of over 60 fellow competitors to take vicory with the nine year old mare ‘Eminent’, who is owned by [...]
Great Britain’s Izzy Taylor Maintains Overnight Lead To Win The Irish Field CCI*** At Tatts 2014
The three-star competition was won by France on a total of eight faults, with Portugal equal second with Brazil on 12 penates.
Ireland’s Jennifer Diamond Remains Best of the Irish Heading into Final Day of the Connolly’s RED MILLS CCI** U25 competition at Tattersalls International Horse Trials
Great Britain’s Izzy Taylor takes the lead in The Irish Field CCI*** Class at Tattersalls International Horse Trials & Country Fair in association with Horse Sport Ireland For the fourth year running, course designer Ian Stark displayed his creative flare, producing what riders have described as an “inviting but challenging and unique course” testing their [...]
Splaine Announces team for Portuguese Nations Cup
A beautiful jumping horse statue created by Mr. Xu
Weina and Mr. Lu Jiawei, has been unveiled at the official launch of the
landmark Longines Global Champions Tour of Shanghai event, to be held from
the 6-8 June
This year we will not be covering Tattersalls International Horse Trials with live commentary, photographs and articles etc. We would like to thank our international audience especially for all the emails and Facebook messages we received this week enquiring about the coverage. In answer to those requests and for anyone else who would like to [...]
IRELAND’S Camilla Speirs with Bridget Speirs’s diminutive Irish Sport Horse Portersize Just a Jif climbed 13 places to finish seventh overall at the prestigious three-star event in Saumur, France today on Sunday. The combination, who survived a spectacular fall on cross country at the 2012 London Olympics, showed no hesitation yesterday on Saumur’s track, coming [...]
Horseware Ireland and Tattersalls International are once again searching for the best dressed man and woman from the massive international field at Tattersalls Horse Trials Tuesday and Wednesday trot-ups next week. There are two €200 prizes up for grabs for the most stylish male and female riders. Dress to impress and you could win a [...]
THE Irish teams for the five-star French and the three-star Danish Nations’ Cup have been announced within the last hour (Thursday). Show Jumping Team manager Robert Splaine at La Baule in France declared his team in jumping order as: Denis Lynch/All Star Cameron Hanley/Antello Z Cian O’Connor/Quidam’s Cherie Billy Twomey/Diaghilev. Splaine said: “This is a [...]
IRISH riders today (Thursday) clocked up wins in the opening classes of the two European Nations’ Cup shows at La Baule in France and Odense in Denmark. Former World Champion Dermott Lennon took victory in La Baule aboard his 12 year-old gelding Vampire, finishing with well over two seconds in hand over Swiss runner-up, Olympic [...]
International Show Jumping at this year’s Balmoral Show will see some of the top and up-and-coming young riders from the British Isles and across the world, compete head to head. Countries including Egypt, Canada, Thailand, Switzerland, Spain, Great Britain and Ireland, will create a truly international field of show jumpers who are sure to provide [...]
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, [...]
