Horse Sport Ireland KILKENNY-born Richie Moloney and the Irish Sport Horse Slieveanorra tonight (Sunday) took a spectacular second place in the 500,000 dollar Grand Prix at Wellington in Florida, the climax of the US 12-week Winter Equestrian Festival. Pipped to the winner’s prize of 120,000 euro by Britain’s World Number One Scott Brash by just [...]
OFFALY’S Darragh Kenny added to Ireland’s rich haul of accumulated prize money at the 12-week Winter Equestrian Festival in Palm Beach, Florida today (Thursday) when he won 8,000 euro for first place in the five-star speed class aboard Postage Stamp Farm’s Kannan gelding Prof de la Rqoue. Fellow Irish rider Ronan McGuigan and the gelding [...]
HORSE Sport Ireland, the Royal Dublin Society and Teagasc are working together to outline a strategy for the sport horse sector of the Irish Equine industry for the period to 2025. To aid the development of this strategy, the Irish Sport Horse Industry Strategy Committee will hold regional meetings for all those involved in the [...]
CORK’S Shane Sweetnam and Spy Coast Farm’s Cyklon opened the 11th week of the Florida Winter Equestrian Festival tonight (Wednesday) with victory in the $34,000 1m45 speed class, marking the Irish rider’s fifth world ranking competition win of the circuit at the Palm Beach venue. Thirty-three year-old US-based Sweetnam also took fifth place in the [...]
WITH Cork’s Shane Sweetnam having opened Week Ten of the Winter Equestrian Festival in Florida with a win, it was left to Kilkenny’s Richie Moloney to close proceedings last night (Sunday) with both a first and third place. Moloney qualified two horses for the jump-off in the Suncast 1m50 Championship Jumper Classic, taking the lead [...]
TODAY (Wednesday) saw yet another opening day win for Ireland’s Shane Sweetnam with the Irish Sport Horse Solerina in the $34,000 1m45 speed class at Florida’s Winter Festival (WEF). Sweetnam has had an outstanding winter circuit in Florida so far, with wins in four very competitive FEI World Ranking classes, among other top finishes. “I [...]
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 [...]
Note from Horse Sport Ireland: IRELAND’S show jumping team finished equal fourth with Brazil at Wellington in Florida in their first Nations’ Cup of 2014 last night (Friday), after a marathon competition that saw 12 teams taking part. A clear round from Cian O’Connor and Quidam’s Cherie helped the Irish make the cut for the [...]
CORK-born Shane Sweetnam, who won his fourth opening competition at Florida’s Winter Equestrian Festival last night (Wednesday) with the Irish Sport Horse Solerina, revealed that he uses a television set in the stable to acclimatise the mare to the competition arena’s giant video screen. “She is very funny about the jumbotron (the giant video display), [...]
FORTY year-old Cameron Hanley proved best of the Irish in the second day (Saturday) of the hotly-contested Hong Kong Masters when taking a third place this morning in the Prix Euroasia jump-off class with Eleonore Paschoud and Yves Bouvier’s 13 year-old gelding Newton du Haut Bois. The Mayo rider was one of ten combinations through [...]
Horse Sport Ireland Release: IRELAND’S Conor Swail and the stallion Lansdowne amassed enough points during the 2013 show jumping season to propel them to eighth place overall in the world rankings, which were issued this week by the world governing body, the FEI. Owned by Susan and Ariel Grange, the 11-year-old Dutch Warmblood stallion gave [...]
IN THE early hours of Saturday morning, Meath’s Cian O’Connor added to Ireland’s recent run of successes in the US with a second place in the $84,000 St. Valentine’s Day Grand Prix in Wellington, Florida. Battling against some of the world’s top riders, the 34 year-old Olympic bronze medallist made it through to the eight [...]
HORSE Sport Ireland announced today (Thursday) the appointment of Anne Marie Dunphy as Pony Dressage Team Manager. This is the first High Performance programme to be put in place for Pony Dressage. Anne Marie Dunphy is also a Horse Sport Ireland level 2 Coach with considerable experience as an international competitor.Triona Connors, Horse Sport Ireland Equestrian Sport [...]
Less than 24 hours remain to vote for your favourite Social Media Icons. Click Here to vote Nearly 13,000 people have voted in the People’s Choice awards for this year’s Equine Online ESMAs. If you’re still deciding who is worthy of your votes, time is running out. Voting closes today at 4pm (GMT). If you [...]
Note from Horse Sport Ireland: IN the official Longines World Show Jumping Rankings published today (Tuesday), covering competitions during the month of January, Ireland has eight riders in the top 100, with Co. Down’s Conor Swail highest at No.26. Tipperary’s Denis Lynch in 29th place, with fellow Tipp rider Shane Breen improving to 35th place. Cork’s [...]
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, [...]
