SIDE saddle riders from all over the world will descend on Brittas House, the stately home of Oinri Jackson and Neville Jessop on Saturday, November 30 at 1pm. The Tara Harriers will lead the field of elegant ladies across the rolling countryside of north Meath. To add to the excitement that night the Tara Harriers Hunt [...]
Written by Louise Parkes French rider, Thomas Carlile, made history yesterday when clinching both the 6 and 7-Year-Old titles at the FEI World Breeding Eventing Championships for Young Horses on home turf at Mondial du Lion. This important annual fixture, which brings together many of the most talented and promising young horses in the sport, was [...]
All roads led to Connell Hill as young athletes arrived and prepared to jump at this prestigious £1500 Grand Prix Pony Show. These young competitors, who turned out in style, displayed a calm, professional demeanour as they walked the courses designed by Will Crean who once again demonstrated his vast experience. The novice classes got [...]
Saturday 19th October 2013 was the first hunt of the season for Route Hunt at Glebeview Clydesdales, Limavady. 18 horses and riders including 4 visitors left Victor Scots yard at 12.15pm for a short hack along a lane before the first jump of the day a pipe and barrel jump in a stubble field. This [...]
As Connell Hill reached a half way mark for the SJI Horse League, a large number of competitors joined to compete over a technical course, testing both horse and rider ability. The sun shone for the most part of the day with riders warming up in short sleeves enjoying this most unusual ‘continental’ weather. The [...]
On Saturday 12th October the Mid Antrim Hunt held a Hunter Trials at Andy Hamilton’s farm, Knockan Rd, Broughshane. It was a classic Hunter Trials of the sort that don’t happen too often nowadays and Andy and his team spent an enormous amount of time and effort building a brand new course with a great [...]
STRULE VALLEY RIDING CLUB, Omagh, Co Tyrone held their Annual General Meeting recently at the RDA, Arvalee, Omagh. Lucinda Blakiston Houston, Chairperson welcomed everyone to the meeting & Alison Donnell read her secretary’s report highlighting club activities over the year. Pearl Donnell then gave her treasurers report & all offices were declared vacant. Kyle Hayes [...]
Connell Hills’ Training Shows are popular and none more so than last Friday night which saw heavy rain but this still did not dampen the spirit of riders and horses of all abilities as they arrived to jump. These first class facilities are ideal for anyone starting or improving on their career in show jumping [...]
DUBLIN’S Aoife Clark made history at the World Breeding Championships for young Eventing horses in France today (Sunday) with Ireland’s best ever result at the competition. After three days of hard-fought contest at le Lion d’Angers with Richard Last’s Irish Sport Horse gelding Fernhill Adventure, the 32 year-old this afternoon had one fence down in [...]
BHS Ireland Annual Meeting Planned for Monday, 21 February 2013 at 7PM Monday, 21 October 2013 at 7PM Hillsborough Community Centre, Hillsborough, Co Down, BT26 6LX BHS Ireland Gold Members are invited to come along to the Annual Meeting on Monday night. We will show a selection of photographs from the BHS Ireland Adult Camps taken [...]
COOLCORRON Cool Diamond, one of Ireland’s top show jumpers for many years, died on Friday October 18th at Coolcorron Stud, Cork. The Irish Sport Horse stallion competed at home and abroad with Robert Splaine, Irish Show Jumping High Performance Manager, from 1995 until the horse’s retirement in 2007. “He was great”, said Splaine today (Saturday). [...]
Now the nights are drawing in where better to be on a Wednesday evening than at Laurel View for the Wednesday evening jumping, all indoors! The Winter Show Jumping League got underway on 2nd October, with the current league running right up until Wednesday 18th December, so plenty of time yet to rack up points [...]
Crosskennan Lane Animal Sanctuary,CLAS, invites you to join them at the Michelin Athletic Club, 30 Woodside Road, Ballymena, BT42 4HX on Friday 25th October from 7:30pm to 1am for a night of music and fun. Resident “DJ Kenny Davidson” will play a mix of country and disco music for the charity’s Country/Disco Night. Line dancers [...]
Saturday 12th October 2013 was the Route Hunt pre season mini hunt at the kennels. A total of 25 riders turned out and this included some hunting for the first time as well as visitors from Londonderry and Donegal. Before leaving hunt treasurer Mike Alcorn gave a short talk about hunting, a cheque was presented [...]
Saturday 12th October saw a another great day for the Dressage For All Autumn League at Mill Yard Equestrian Centre, Anahilt, Hillsborough, which was kindly judged by Debbie Osborough (and Lynsey Craig!). Thanks also to A.P.Photography for covering the event. The league is open to everyone and classes range from Walk/Trot only tests, Preliminary, Novice and [...]
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, [...]
