Show Jumping
A STRONG Irish duo left their mark on Sunday’s feature class at the Winter Equestrian Festival in Florida, taking one third and two joint fourth places from a starting field of 60. Once again Offaly’s Darragh Kenny piloted two horses into the top five, claiming a third place on the Irish Sport Horse Gatsby and [...]
Amidst the winter snow blizzards competitors loaded up and travelled to Connell Hills Training Show on Friday night, jumping tracks in preparation for the forthcoming season. Connell Hills Training Show is a most sure ground start to all riders and horses as both the outdoor and indoor arenas have a superb surface which is carefully [...]
OFFALY-born Darragh Kenny fielded two horses in Friday night’s speed class at the five-star show in Wellington Florida, and brought them home in the top two places. The Irish rider first stopped the clock at the Palm Beach Equestrian Centre in 57.87 seconds with Toffolon Partners LLC’s Irish Sport Horse Gatsby to take the lead [...]
Portmore Equestrian Centre was the place to be on Saturday 24th January where NIRC held their annual Indoor Individual Show Jumping Championships. Downshire were well represented in all the Senior competitions and Joanna McNamee was the first Club rider to go in the Novice on her lovely grey Arctic Moon but unfortunately had a couple [...]
Week ending 25th January 2015, results Ravensdale Lodge Equestrian & Event Centre. All the boxes were ticked at Ravensdale Lodge as the centre commenced shows for the 2015 winter / spring indoor season last week. All equestrian disciplines were covered with everyone’s tastes being catered for from show jumping & arena eventing to dressage. Indoor [...]
STRULE VALLEY RIDING CLUB, Omagh, Co Tyrone are holding their first competition of the new year which will be an Arena Eventing Competition on Sunday 8th February at Ecclesville, Fintona commencing at 1.30 pm with the 60cm class. This will be followed by 70cm, 80cm, 90cm & 1 metre. For those who are not sure what Arena [...]
BERTRAM Allen took second place at the prestigious Longines World Cup Grand Prix in Zurich on Sunday afternoon, and gained enough points to qualify for the 2014/2015 World Cup Final in the USA in April. The 19 year-old Wexford rider was one of just seven to make the jump-off at the Swiss show from a [...]
Knockagh View equestrian centre held an all silver show jumping day last Sunday and once again it was very popular with competitors loving the gorgeous trophies up for grabs! All the little competitors took home gorgeous medals with the winner of each class taking home a trophy. The next All Silver showjumping day is on [...]
Connell Hill welcomed competitors to the first of their four Unregistered Horse Shows on Sunday, and what better way to kick off these shows than celebrating the birth of the great Robert Burns, as some of our competitors demonstrated true poetry in motion. These shows prepare horses for the forthcoming season as riders train, raise [...]
Drifting towards the end of January Connell Hill welcomed competitors eager to enhance riding skills and train/school horses for the upcoming season at the Training Show on Friday night. Training plays such an important role in any sport and none more so than the equine world hence these shows are a huge benefit with the [...]
The forecasters had issued weather warnings for Sunday 18th January, putting off many competitors, leaving only the hardy or handy competitors for the fourth leg of the Laurel View Indoor Derby League. Disappointingly there were no competitors to take up the 60cm challenge, but the 70cm got the competition off to a worthy start. [...]
ARCOLUM Duke gave Irish rider Billy Twomey his second five-star win this month when a notable show of speed nailed the Top 40 competition for the Corkman at Zurich in Switzerland on Friday. Twomey was drawn 14th to jump on Joe Flynn’s grey Irish sport horse at Zurich, and then had an agonising wait as [...]
IRELAND’S Conor Swail began the third week of competition at the 2015 Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF) in Florida just as he left off in week two, with another trip to the winner’s circle. After topping Sunday’s $34,000 Suncast 1.50m Championship Jumper Classic riding Susan and Ariel Grange’s Martha Louise, Co. Down-born Swail won Wednesday’s $34,000 [...]
Connell Hill welcomed competitors on Sunday 18th January as they made their way, oblivious to the cold weather conditions, to the ‘Working Hunter Show’, which was a track of natural/authentic working hunter and minimal obstacle fences. The superbly maintained indoor surface encouraged ponies and horses forward with the added benefit of this venue being a [...]
Saturday 17 January saw the first competition for Ardnacashel Equestrian in 2015! The day got off to a frosty start but after a bit of persuasion the sun showed her face and got the day underway. The Jump Cross Course was made up of mixture of cross country, show jumps and working hunter fences The competition [...]
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, [...]
