Scott Brash (GBR) is now back at the top of the Longines Rankings as world Jumping number one. Brash, 29, the youngest member of the London 2012 Olympic Games gold medal winning British team, jumped into the lead of the Longines Rankings for the first time in his career in December 2013, and held on [...]
The Longines Global Champions Tour moves to Shanghai, China this weekend, for the fourth leg of the 2015 series - and for the second year-in-a-row, Irish based feed company Connolly’s RED MILLS will be the Official Feed Supplier for the event. Over 70 of the world’s top show jumping horses arrived in Shanghai earlier this week – [...]
IRISH show jumping team manager Robert Splaine tonight (Thursday) announced his team to compete in the three-star Nations’ Cup at Drammen in Norway this afternoon. The Irish foursome will line out as follows: Capt. Brian Cournane/Javas Keltic Mist (ISH) Michael G Duffy/ Felix XXVIII Capt. Geoff Curran/Mullaghbane (ISH) Paul O’Shea/Skara Glen’s Sienna Splaine said: “Drammen [...]
THOUGH a disappointing team result for Ireland in the first 2015 Nations’ Cup at Lummen in Belgium, we saw a new star emerge in the shape of 29 year-old Greg Broderick with the Irish Sport Horse MHS Going Global. Making their five-star debut in the top level of the Furusiyya league, the Thurles-based rider and [...]
NINETEEN year-old Bertram Allen chalked up yet another honour for Ireland on Friday when he outclassed a 55-strong international field to win this evening’s feature speed class at the five-star show in Madrid. Written by Colin McClelland The Wexford teenager, ranked tenth in the world, piloted Quainton Stud’s 11 year-old gelding Quiet Easy 4 to [...]
WEXFORD’S Bertram Allen took fifth and Offaly’s Darragh Kenny claimed sixth place in one of the most nail-biting Grand Prix finishes of the 2015 Global Champions Tour in Madrid on Saturday night. With only four clear first rounds on the board from a start list of 50, Allen on the 17 year-old Romanov and Kenny [...]
Switzerland’s Steve Guerdat was a happy man when claiming the Longines FEI World Cup™ Jumping 2015 title at the Thomas & Mack arena in Las Vegas, USA today. “I’ve been waiting a long time for this moment!”, said the 32-year-old Olympic champion whose last-to-go ride was an absolute thriller. Written by by Louise Parkes <iframe width=”560″ [...]
IRELAND’S Denis Lynch was just over half a second short of taking victory in Saturday’s major speed class at the Saut Hèrmes show in Paris. Riding Thomas Straumann’s bay gelding Abbervail van het Dingeshof, the Tipperary show jumper settled for the runner-up purse of 12,300 euro, while Netherlands winner Maikel van der Vleuten pocketed 20,300 [...]
SETTING a new high in Irish sporting achievement, 19 year-old Bertram Allen has today (Tuesday) entered the top ten of the world’s best show jumping riders. In the official Longines World Rider Rankings, which measure the monthly performances of over 2,000 riders internationally, Wexford-born Allen has today for the first time achieved tenth position, putting [...]
BANBRIDGE-born Dermott Lennon today claimed his second Grand Prix victory of the month at Vilamoura in Portugal withJudith Sossick’s Irish Sport Horse Loughview Lou Lou on Sunday. The former show jumping world champion picked up 11,250 euro as first prize in the three-star competition this evening, outpacing nearest rival, Belgium’s François Brichart on Boosty Chavannais, [...]
DENIS Lynch, Ireland’s sole competitor at the four-star show in Braunschweig, Germany, made it a hat trick of wins on Sunday with victory in the Grand Prix aboard Thomas Straumann’s Abbervail van het Dingeshof. Remarkably, the Tipperary-born rider won three consecutive major competitions at the German venue on the 15 year-old gelding over a period [...]
CO. DOWN’S Dermott Lennon was one of two Irish show jumping Grand Prix winners on Sunday, but in an unusual twist had to share first place at the Spanish Sunshine Tour with Briton Robert Bevis, both riders recording an identical time at the end of the 12-horse jump off. Former World Champion Lennon piloted his [...]
Atlantic Tour Young horse Classes are hotly contested this week with the European Cup totalling 44,500 euros in prize money! This week, Emma Stoker, in the young horses’ competition, is under the spotlight. The British rider achieved a double victory in the 2015 Young Horses European Cup, riding Shelby 12 and Quincy Lady, in the finals for [...]
Once again Centro Hípico de Vilamoura hosted another great show jumping competition. The CSI2 * Grand Prix was won by Adeline Hecart. The French rider Adeline Hecart was the best among 67 other riders who competed in the Grand Prix, this weekend at Vilamoura Atlantic Tour 2015. Adeline, with the help of her horse [...]
Ireland’s Greg Broderick and Going Global, owned by Caledonia Stables at HITS Thermal. Tipperary’s Greg Broderick added to his growing list of prize-winning results at the HITS Desert Circuit in Thermal California, with two top-ten placings in Friday night’s $25,500 SmartPak Grand Prix. The Thurles native slotted into eighth place with the Caledonia [...]
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, [...]
