International
UNDER the guidance of Chef d’Equipe Comdt. John Ledingham, Irish Junior and Young Riders made their mark at the international show in Wellington, Florida during the weekend. The Junior team of Conor McMahon, Philip Carey, Matt Garrigan and Cormac Hanley claimed the Silver Medal in the Junior Nations’ Cup, finishing on 13 faults behind an [...]
TIPPERARY native Denis Lynch took Ireland’s first victory of the weekend at the five-star show in Gothenburg, Sweden in Thursday’s feature class. Picking up some valuable world ranking points as well as prize money of almost 9,000 euro, the 38 year-old rode Thomas Straumann’s bay gelding Abbervail van het Dingeshof through a faultless first round, [...]
THE Irish show jumping team of Darragh Kenny, Shane Sweetnam, Cian O’Connor and Kevin Babington finished third in the Nations’ Cup at Wellington in Florida on Friday night, pulling up from equal fifth at the end of the first round. Fifth to jump of nine nations competing, an uncharacteristic four faults from opener Darragh Kenny [...]
Colin McDonald, Chief Executive RUAS and Karen Hughes, Administrative Executive RUAS announce entries for Balmoral Show open on Wednesday 18th February. Entries can be made online at www.balmoralshow.co.uk or for an application pack, phone Karen on 02890 686186. To keep up to date with 2015 Balmoral Show news check out our website www.balmoralshow.co.uk, Facebook: Balmoral [...]
COOLEY FARM TO SPONSOR NEW CCIYH1* CLASS AS SCHEDULE FOR TATTS 2015 IS RELEASED Tattersalls International Horse Trials and Country Fair in association with Horse Sport Ireland have added a new and exciting CCI1* Young Horse Class to the schedule for 2015. Tattersalls Ireland are delighted to welcome Cooley Farm who have come on board [...]
IRISH show jumping manager Robert Splaine named the six riders from which he will select the team of four that will represent Ireland in the four-star Wellington, West Palm Beach Nations’ Cup in Florida on Friday night. The six are: Kevin Babington with Shorapur Richie Moloney with Carrabis Z and Slieveanorra (ISH) Daragh Kenny with [...]
IRELAND stormed to silver in the mixed relay event at the Sarasota Modern Pentathlon World Cup yesterday on Sunday in Florida, USA. Irish Olympians, Arthur Lanigan-O’Keeffe and Natalya Coyle made a late charge for the podium by moving from eighth to second in the final combined run/shoot event.Ireland scored 15 victories in fencing to begin the [...]
German rider Marc Bettinger, riding Bacardi finishes this week with a victory at the Grand Prix The first Grand Prix of the Atlantic Tour 2015 took place this Sunday. This Grand Prix (CSI2 *), played at a height of 1.45 m, was won by Marc Bettinger and Bacardi team. The German rider finished the jump-off [...]
HORSE Sport Ireland has announced the dates and venues for the 2015 Irish Sport Horse Studbook Showjumping Series. The Series, which is made up of classes for 5, 6 and 7 year old horses, celebrates its tenth year in existence in 2015. Over the decade, the Series has gone from strength to strength with entry [...]
IRELAND’S Kevin Babington kept up his sparkling form at the four-star show in Ocala, Florida, with a second place in Sunday’s Grand Prix. Following their two clear rounds in Friday’s US Nations’ Cup that helped the Irish team claim outright victory, Tipperary-born Babington tonight again partnered the ten year-old mare Shorapur, and came within a [...]
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 [...]
THE Irish show jumping team of Darragh Kenny, Lorcan Gallagher, Kevin Babington and Conor Swail swept to victory in Friday’s FEI Furusiyya Nations’ Cup in Ocala, Florida, finishing on a total of just four faults. Ireland’s victory was made remarkable by the fact that all four horses had not competed at Nations’ Cup level before, [...]
Tattersalls International Horse Trials & Country Fair in association with Horse Sport Ireland is delighted to announce Horsezone.co.uk as sponsors of their Live Video Streaming platform for the 2015 event. 2014 was the first year that Tattersalls introduced Live Streaming and it proved to be extremely popular across the world with over 130,000 people tuning into the [...]
IRISH show jumping manager Robert Splaine on Wednesday announced his squad for the first Nations’ Cup of 2015, which takes place in Ocala, Florida on Friday night. Ireland’s squad of five, from which Splaine will select a team of four on Thursday, is as follows: Darragh Kerins/D Elia Van Het Molenhof Darragh Kenny/Picolo Conor Swail/Grafton [...]
UP against some of the world’s top equestrian stars, Ireland’s 19 year-old show jumping sensation Bertram Allen on Saturday won his second World Cup competition outright at Bordeaux in France and propelled himself to the top of the Western European league table. Riding Billy Twomey’s 17 year-old chestnut stallion Romanov, the Wexford rider dazzled the [...]
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, [...]
