Note from: Horse Sport Ireland, Colin McClelland MAYO’S Alex Duffy and Waterford’s Anthony Condon were Ireland’s Grand Prix stars this weekend, with Duffy taking third place in the four-star competition at Amsterdam and Condon winning the two-star Mediterranean Equestrian Tour final in Oliva, Spain. Condon, who turned 27 earlier this month and is based in [...]
HORSE Sport Ireland has announced that Olivia ‘Polly’ Holohan has been appointed as Team Manager of Ireland’s Pony Eventing team. The appointment was confirmed at Tuesday’s Horse Sport Ireland Board meeting following an interview process. Polly Holohan will replace Sue Shortt, who stepped down at the end of 2013 to take up a position as [...]
Note from Horse Sport Ireland IRISH riders made their mark on the opening competitions of this weekend’s international show jumping with two consecutive wins at Drachten in the Netherlands, and a third place in the big five-star show in Basel, Switzerland. His third place in the five-star “Golden Drum of Basel” jump off class tonight [...]
Horse Sport Ireland Announce IRELAND’s spectacular week at the 2013 Student Riders’ World Finals in Belgium at the weekend, winning the overall team championships, the overall individual title and the team and individual show jumping titles. The Irish trio of Melanie Young, Brian Morrison and Peter O’Donnell collected the Presidents’ Cup, which is the Overall Team [...]
HORSE Sport Ireland has confirmed that Marcus Swail will step down as Team Veterinarian for the Irish Show Jumping and Eventing teams. Marcus has been Team Vet since 2003. He was Team Vet at three Olympic Games, including last year’s London Games, two World Equestrian Games and several European Championships, . Horse Sport Ireland CEO [...]
Note from Horse Sport Ireland: EIGHTEEN year-old Bertram Allen continued his recent run of sparkling form on Sunday when he won the Grand Prix at Leszno in Poland and also the final of the Silver Tour, with a second place in the Gold Tour Final to complete his day’s successes. With Ballywalter Farms’s grey mare [...]
Note from Horse Sport Ireland IN the official Longines World Show Jumping Rankings published on Tuesday, covering competitions during the month of October, Ireland has eight riders in the top 100, one more than in September’s list. Tipperary’s Denis Lynch remains highest-placed of the Irish at No. 23, one position higher than in the previous [...]
A SPECIAL new fence was added to the Olympic-standard show jumping course at the recently opened Horse Arena in Blanchardstown’s National Sports Campus yesterday (Wednesday). In a special presentation, Irish show jumping manager Robert Splaine introduced fence builder James Tarrant, and Tara Weston, who had generously bought the fence at auction. The fence was then presented to [...]
TIPPERARY’S Shane Breen claimed third place in a tense World Cup Qualifier in Helsinki, Finland on Sunday which saw only eight of the 36 starters managing to achieve a clear first round. Breen and his own ten year-old stallion Balloon navigated a stylish zero-penalty start and in the jump-off came home clear once more in [...]
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 [...]
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). [...]
IRELAND dominated the Leading Show Jumper of the Year competition at the Horse of the Year Show in Birmingham, England tonight (Sunday), with Cork’s Billy Twomey taking first place and Meath’s Cian O’Connor claiming second. On a challenging course that saw the Irish riders posting two of only three zero scores in the Grand Prix’s [...]
Note from Horse Sport Ireland IN the official Longines World Show Jumping Rankings published today (Friday), covering competitions during the month of September, Ireland has seven riders in the top 100, with 18 year-old Bertram Allen from Wexford holding his place amongst the global elite of the sport. Leading the Irish entries in the monthly [...]
IRELAND’S Michael Ryan held his dressage score of 43.5 right through the Osberton International Horse Trials this weekend to finish second on Ballylynch Wizard today (Sunday) in the CCI two-star class. The Bandon, Co. Cork-based rider steered Carol and Tom Henry’s gelding up from fifth place after dressage and cross country to claim the runner-up [...]
IN the official Longines World Show Jumping Rankings published yesterday covering competitions during the month of August, Ireland has four riders in the top 50. Leading the Irish entries in the monthly table is Tipperary’s Denis Lynch in 29th place, while Co. Down’s Conor Swail takes 36th place. Tipperary-born Shane Breen has jumped from 56th [...]
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, [...]
