Press release, written by Colin McClelland IRISH riders collected four trophies in European shows over the last 36 hours, while at Gothenburg in Sweden, Denis Lynch and All Star 5 qualified for the final day of the Jumping World Cup Final. This evening at Ebreichsdorf in Austria, Ireland’s Olympic medallist Cian O’Connor returned from his [...]
Colin McClelland, Horse Sport Ireland TIPPERARY-born Denis Lynch collected several top five places at the prestigious five-star show in Paris, France this weekend, but failed to make a dent in Sunday’s 200,000 euro Grand Prix when he faulted once in the first round on Abbervail van het Dingeshof. With Thomas Straumann’s gelding Lantinus, the Irish [...]
TWO Irish riders just back after long injury lay-offs last weekend scored top five Grand Prix places at European shows, while brothers Trevor and Shane Breen took second and third places in another. Mayo’s Cameron Hanley, who was two years out of the saddle with a serious leg injury, this afternoon placed fourth in the [...]
JESSICA Kurten notched up Ireland’s fourth show jumping victory this weekend when she won at ‘s-Hertogenbosh this evening (Saturday), romping home with over two seconds in hand over nearest challenger, Britain’s Scott Brash. The Antrim-born rider, piloting VDL Stud’s stallion Arezzo VDL, was back to her top form at the Netherlands show, and never looked [...]
A WIN in the $33,000 Suncast 1.50m Championship Jumper Classic at Wellington, Florida tonight (Sunday) by Kilkenny’s Richie Moloney and the Irish Sport Horse Slieveanorra brought Ireland’s weekend tally of international show jumping victories to a total of six. Thirty-one entries showed in the Florida class, over a course set by Germany’s Olaf Peterson, Jr. [...]
CONOR Swail led the Irish charge in tonight’s (Thursday) Round Ten of the Winter Equestrian Festival Challenge at Wellington in Florida with a victory aboard the chestnut mare Martha Louise. The Co. Down-born rider, who was second to go in the final round, outpaced the USA’s jump-off leader Charlie Jacobs and Flaming Star, clipping over [...]
Horse Sport Ireland has just announced that GAIN Horse Feeds will be the Official Feed Consultants to Team Ireland Equestrian Teams. In addition to this, Glanbia and GAIN will be the Official Sponsor of Team Ireland Equestrian underage Eventing and Show Jumping teams. This exciting new partnership will run for four years and offers a [...]
Colin McClelland, Hose Sport Ireland KILKENNY’S Marion Hughes claimed Ireland’s first big international victory of the weekend when she steered the Irish Sport Horse mare Heritage HHS Fortuna to a win at Al Ain in the United Arab Emirates this afternoon (Saturday). The Portuguese-based rider went against the clock in a five star competition that [...]
CORK’S Shane Sweetnam placed third in last night’s (Saturday) World Cup Grand Prix in Wellington, Florida, with fellow Irish rider Conor Swail taking eighth. With 125,000 dollars in prize money at stake, competition was understandably intense, and at the finish only four combinations achieved double clear rounds, with the USA’s Beezie Madden and Cortes C [...]
ROBERT Splaine has been reappointed as the High Performance Manager for the Irish Show Jumping team following a board meeting of Horse Sport Ireland last night (Tuesday). The position of Show Jumping High Performance Manager was advertised in December 2012 and following second round interviews on Monday, Robert Splaine was recommended by the interview panel [...]
THE Wellington Dressage CDI-W at the 2013 Adequan Global Dressage Festival (AGDF) in Florida USA drew to a close today (Sunday) with an Irish win. The featured class was the FEI Intermediare Freestyle. First place in the $6,000 FEI Intermediare Freestyle went to Ireland’s Sonia Zugel riding her mount Ungaro (Weltmeyer II x Wendekreis) with [...]
PATRICK Wall has been appointed as the new Chairman of Horse Sport Ireland following his nomination by Minister for Transport, Tourism & Sport Leo Varadkar, it was announced today (Thursday). Patrick Wall is Professor of Public Health at University College Dublin, and is qualified both as a veterinary surgeon and a medical doctor. He was [...]
HORSE Sport Ireland offer equestrian coaching courses accredited by Coaching Ireland. HSI Coaching courses are competition based coaching qualifications, using modern techniques to improve both horses’ and riders’ performance and are led by professional equestrian tutors. Places are limited on these exciting courses so book early to avoid disappointment! HSI are delighed to announce the following [...]
EACH year British Eventing produces rankings of the leading sires of young event horses competing in the UK. This year Irish-based stallions dominated the young horse sire rankings. The rankings, which were published on the British Eventing website in November, show that 15 of the top 20 stallions of four to eight year old event [...]
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, [...]
