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The Pony Club held their annual Cubitt Awards ceremony at Stratford Manor, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire on Monday June 2nd. The annual awards are held in honour of volunteers who have given in excess of 20 years to The Pony Club, and take their name from the late Hon Guy Cubitt, who was Chairman of The Pony [...]
SAINTFIELD SHOW SATURDAY 21st June 2014 Photographs from the show can be found on this link WORKING HUNTER PONIES CLASS 116 OPEN WORKING STARTER STAKES 1. 491 Zara Sharvin Woodvale Classic Lady 2. 492 Lara Kelly Tootsie 3. 497 Bethany Smith Charlie’s Dream 4. 496 Lucy Johnston LJ Sparky CLASS 117 [...]
Cavan Horse Marketing Centre’s 2 day Summer Horse & Pony sale on Tuesday 24th & Wednesday 25th June had a terrific buzz running through the complex throughout the sale. Many overseas buyers including Sweden, Belgium, Libya, England and Scotland along with the many home grown buyers from North and South helped to achieve a [...]
Following the successful reintroduction of Working Hunter to Omagh Show, organisers Arvalee Riding Club are making slight adjustments to the schedule as they enter their 3rd year of organising the arena at the popular agricultural and equestrian event running 4th and 5th July at the Tyrone Farming Society grounds, on the edge of Omagh town. [...]
Down Royal Racecourse welcomed 15 members from YouthAction to Down Royal Racecourse on Friday 20th June, the opening day of Down Royal’s two-day Summer Festival. The YouthAction Group were treated to a tour of the racecourse and saw first-hand what goes on behind the scenes of the County Down racecourse. The group walked the track with [...]
The Mid Antrim Horse Show will be held as usual at the Ballee Playing Fields, Ballymena on Saturday 28th June and following the success of last year’s prestigious new 1metre30 Grand Prix, it will be repeated again this year. Volvo Dennison Commercial Trucks have very kindly agreed to sponsor this again with an extremely generous [...]
The Pony Club is pleased to announce that Weatherbys Private Banking have come on board as the headline sponsor of The Pony Club Championships, to be held at Cholmondeley Castle, Cheshire, August 15-18th 2014, by kind permission of The Marquess of Cholmondeley. The Pony Club Championships draw a crowd of over 5000 spectators and competitors each year, [...]
Racehorse to riding horse competitors had a busy weekend in the Northern region with Armagh Show’s packed programme including everything from the popular riding classes for exracers which included a qualifier for the RDS also a sidesaddle class a class for the unraced thoroughbreds and the fun event of Racehorse to Hunt which caught the imagination [...]
Congratulations to Rachael Coulter and Justine Harding of East Antrim Pony Club who have made it to the final selection of young rider development receiving specialist training and development. Naturally both East Antrim members were absolutely thrilled with their achievement. To have two members make it through this selection process is a very positive reflection [...]
Cavan’s TWO DAY SUMMER SALE OF PERFORMANCE HORSES & PONIES takes place on Tuesday 24th & Wednesday 25th June. This sale has a quality and a varied selection catalogued and is sure to get the summer sale season off to an excellent start. The sale will run in the usual order commencing Tuesday 24th starting [...]
In May the Barclay Communications race evening at Down Royal and eventing weekend at Glenpatrick raised over five thousand pounds for the Jonjo Bright Trust, taking their total raised so far to nearly thirty two thousand pounds. The May Day weekend at Glenpatrick played host to hundreds of eventers and raised money across Saturdays Eventing [...]
As part of the Omagh Group of Riding for Disabled’s preparations for their trip to the UK National Championships, the group are pleased to announce that a Trainer to the British Para Dressage team, Mr Clive Milkins FRDA will make a two day visit to the Arvalee based centre on Wednesday 2nd July and Thursday [...]
MARK Duffy and Glenomra Cocoa (ISH) have won the fifth leg of the 7 year-old ISH Studbook series, held at Galway show today (Sunday), going clear in a time of 77.80. The winner is by Cougar (ISH), out of dam Glenomra Colleen (ISH), the breeder is John Vaughan and owner Grainne Davoren.
For racing aficionados and socialites alike, the most celebrated racing event in the Down Royal Summer calendar will soon be upon us
Omagh RDA are once again holding a Car Boot Sale on Sunday 8th June at their Arvalee premises, Omagh.
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, [...]
