HORSE Sport Ireland has announced the dates and venues for the 2015 Irish Sport Horse Studbook Showjumping Series. The Series, which is made up of classes for 5, 6 and 7 year old horses, celebrates its tenth year in existence in 2015. Over the decade, the Series has gone from strength to strength with entry [...]
IRELAND’S Kevin Babington kept up his sparkling form at the four-star show in Ocala, Florida, with a second place in Sunday’s Grand Prix. Following their two clear rounds in Friday’s US Nations’ Cup that helped the Irish team claim outright victory, Tipperary-born Babington tonight again partnered the ten year-old mare Shorapur, and came within a [...]
HORSE Sport Ireland, the Governing Body for equestrian sport in Ireland, has commented on the news, featured in the Irish Field, that two clones of the great Irish stallion Cruising will be available to Irish Sport Horse breeders in 2015. Horse Sport Ireland also operates the Irish Sport Horse Studbook. The McCann family of Hartwell [...]
THE Irish show jumping team of Darragh Kenny, Lorcan Gallagher, Kevin Babington and Conor Swail swept to victory in Friday’s FEI Furusiyya Nations’ Cup in Ocala, Florida, finishing on a total of just four faults. Ireland’s victory was made remarkable by the fact that all four horses had not competed at Nations’ Cup level before, [...]
TIPPERARY’S Kevin Babington produced Ireland’s first win at this weekend’s US Nations’ Cup show in Ocala, Florida, with a victory in last night’s Grand Prix Qualifier. A capacity crowd at the four-star venue saw the 46 year-old pull into the lead when 35th of 59 riders to jump, piloting the Irish Sport Horse Mark Q, [...]
IRISH show jumping manager Robert Splaine on Wednesday announced his squad for the first Nations’ Cup of 2015, which takes place in Ocala, Florida on Friday night. Ireland’s squad of five, from which Splaine will select a team of four on Thursday, is as follows: Darragh Kerins/D Elia Van Het Molenhof Darragh Kenny/Picolo Conor Swail/Grafton [...]
UP against some of the world’s top equestrian stars, Ireland’s 19 year-old show jumping sensation Bertram Allen on Saturday won his second World Cup competition outright at Bordeaux in France and propelled himself to the top of the Western European league table. Riding Billy Twomey’s 17 year-old chestnut stallion Romanov, the Wexford rider dazzled the [...]
DENIS Lynch and Bertram Allen delivered two definitive wins for Ireland at the big five-star World Cup show in Bordeaux, France on Friday. Lynch collected 20,300 euro for his victory in tonight’s feature speed class, the Prix Generali, riding Thomas Straumann’s 15 year-old bay gelding Abbervail van het Dingeshof. Seventh-last to jump from a starting [...]
RONAN McGuigan won the opening speed class in Florida on Wednesday night, making it the third week in a row that Ireland has claimed this prize at Wellington’s Winter Equestrian Festival. Second place also went to Ireland, with Co. Down’s Conor Swail and Ariana just an eighth of a second behind McGuigan and his Baloubet [...]
A STRONG Irish duo left their mark on Sunday’s feature class at the Winter Equestrian Festival in Florida, taking one third and two joint fourth places from a starting field of 60. Once again Offaly’s Darragh Kenny piloted two horses into the top five, claiming a third place on the Irish Sport Horse Gatsby and [...]
OFFALY-born Darragh Kenny fielded two horses in Friday night’s speed class at the five-star show in Wellington Florida, and brought them home in the top two places. The Irish rider first stopped the clock at the Palm Beach Equestrian Centre in 57.87 seconds with Toffolon Partners LLC’s Irish Sport Horse Gatsby to take the lead [...]
BERTRAM Allen took second place at the prestigious Longines World Cup Grand Prix in Zurich on Sunday afternoon, and gained enough points to qualify for the 2014/2015 World Cup Final in the USA in April. The 19 year-old Wexford rider was one of just seven to make the jump-off at the Swiss show from a [...]
ARCOLUM Duke gave Irish rider Billy Twomey his second five-star win this month when a notable show of speed nailed the Top 40 competition for the Corkman at Zurich in Switzerland on Friday. Twomey was drawn 14th to jump on Joe Flynn’s grey Irish sport horse at Zurich, and then had an agonising wait as [...]
IRELAND’S Conor Swail began the third week of competition at the 2015 Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF) in Florida just as he left off in week two, with another trip to the winner’s circle. After topping Sunday’s $34,000 Suncast 1.50m Championship Jumper Classic riding Susan and Ariel Grange’s Martha Louise, Co. Down-born Swail won Wednesday’s $34,000 [...]
IRELAND’S Denis Lynch and Thomas Straumann’s big-striding bay gelding Abbervail van het Dingeshof left the audience at Leipzig’s five-star show on tenterhooks when they recorded what looked might be the only clear round in the Championat of Leipzig jump-off on Saturday afternoon. One of 17 combinations through to the timed final round from a 52-strong [...]
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, [...]
