Show Jumping
Knockagh View Equestrian centre held an All Silver Showjumping day on Sunday, all competitors who won their class had a lovely trophy to take home. There were super entries which made for good competitive classes. Our little riders started off the day with lots of clears in the 30cm class, a draw for the placings [...]
Results of Pony jumping held on Friday 7th March Cross Poles 1st Duncan, Ellen McDonald won the trophy; Special; Dandy, Caitlyn Patterson. 40cm 1st Toby, Robert Russell won the Scott Murry Trophy; 2nd Merlin, Emma Burns; 3rd Skip, Lara McComb; 4th Boss Man, Kieva Milligan; also double clear; Duncan, Ellen McDonald. 50cm 1st Toffee, Shannon [...]
Kernan Equestrian Centre Spring SJI Horse & Pony League Results Sunday 9th March 2014 HORSES 90cm- 1,T. Carragher’s Watchful Eye (Hannah Joyce); 1m- 1,M. McShane’s MMS Camilla (Mary McShane); 1, D. Vallely’s Flagstaff Dream (Deidre Vallely); 1.10m- 1,E. Hanratty’s Right Touch (Siobhan Hanratty); 1, J. Morton’s Patch Mills Laura (Abby Morton); 1, S. Hanley’s [...]
The sixth week of the SJI Horse League at Connell, with four weeks remaining before the final on Saturday 26th April, saw the car parks fill with not only horse boxes and lorries but cars with spectators as competitors arrived in full show attire to take the challenge of jumping some technical tracks. These tracks [...]
The Friday night Training Show at Connell Hill saw some super rounds of jumping by ponies and horses some of which were old hands at the game and then the very novice being introduced to an indoor colourful course of fences designed to encourage forwardness with confidence. The indoor facilities with first a class surface [...]
Derry’s Daniel Coyle may have been the man on form at Ravensdale Lodge last Sunday as he collected his third Spring Tour Grand Prix in a row at the centre but it was local riders who won the lion’s share of the prize fund in the early classes. Talented young rider, Ellie Hughes from Carlingford [...]
RIDING the Irish Sport Horse gelding Corbeagh Luxor, former World Show Jumping Champion Dermott Lennon won the three-star Vilamoura Grand Prix in Portugal by recording the only double clear round of the contest today (Sunday). Forty-four year old Lennon won 15,000 euro for his achievement, and saw off challenges from top German rider Marc Bettinger [...]
Portmore Equestrian Centre was the venue on Sunday 2 March for the annual NIRC Indoor Show Jumping Mixed Team Championships. 23 teams from all over Northern Ireland gathered for a great days craic and sport and proceedings got under way at 10 am. First Downshire rider in and pathfinder for the two Downshire teams competing [...]
HORSES 1m- 1,L.McEntaggart’s Explorer Z (Louise McEntaggart); 1,C. Gibson’s Aldaluck (Lucy Gibson); 1.10m- 1,C. Gibson’s Aldaluck (Charlotte Gibson); I, P. McCourt’s Latika (Emmrt McCourt); 1.20m- 1, E. McCourt’s Money Train (Emmet McCourt); PONIES 128 90cm- 1,J. Clarke’s Alloy (Tadhg Clarke); 2,HP Ward’s Madges Jane Lady (Dylan Ward); 3, O. Harris’s Miss Moonlight (Jennifer Torrens); 128 [...]
Connell Hill will host two £1,000 IPS Pony Shows on Sunday 9th March at 10.00 am and Sunday 23rd March at 9.30 am sharp, with classes as per bulletin (Newcomers to 148 cm 1 m 25). These major shows, with Course Designer Mr Nigel Jess, promise to be of huge competition as ‘warm up’ classes [...]
A variety of competitions have been keeping Gransha Riding Club’s members busy over the last few weeks. The jump cross had a small attendance however this gave members time to have a good school around the combination of show jumps and working hunter fences. In the 60cms class joint winners were Faith McKee and Josh Getty, Ashleigh Saunderson won [...]
Due to a clash of dates, CAUSE has taken the decision to move its event to Wednesday 29 October 2014. The NI peer led charity hopes many equestrian enthusiasts of school age will be supporting the charity during Halloween week at Portmore Equestrian Centre. As usual the Show jumping classes will includes, Minis (70cms), [...]
Castle Leslie Equestrian Centre in conjunction with Charles Owen are thrilled to announce that world champions Pippa and William Funnell will be visiting them to conduct a series of private 1 hour group lessons on 29th & 30th March. William will conduct show jumping lessons from 9-1pm each day followed by lunch and Pippa will [...]
The latest round of the Equestrian Interschools Ireland League was held on Saturday 1st March and hosted by Kernan Equestrian Centre, Crossmaglen Co. Armagh. James Kernan the proprietor built the courses for both the Novice and Open team and individual events. Six teams in all competed in the day’s events. The schools taking part [...]
The final of the Nugent Trailer Showjumping League at Castle Leslie took place last Friday evening. The course was a flowing course with challenging jump offs for those taking part in the speed rounds. The first class to take place was the cross pole class with Jack Carragher, Amy McAnerney and Sara McAnerney all taking [...]
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, [...]
