Crosskennan Lane Animal Sanctuary, in Antrim will be having a Christmas sale event at the charity’s log cabin on Sunday 30th November 1-3pm. There will be Christmas goods for sale, pony rides, tombola, mince pies, and refreshments. Everyone is welcome to come along but wear appropriate footwear as the recent heavy rain has taken its [...]
Crosskennan Lane Animal Sanctuary,CLAS. in Antrim was established in 1996 and was the first educational equine welfare charity set up in Northern Ireland. The charity is concerned with the rescue and rehabilitation of animals, in particular horses and ponies, but also dogs, cats and chickens that have been abused and neglected. At CLAS the animals [...]
Due to the demand for it’s Xmas ballot tickets and Xmas cards Crosskennan Lane Animal Sanctuary,CLAS, will be opening it’s reception area on Sunday 8th Dec from 1-3pm to allow the public to come up to collect tickets and cards. All the proceeds will go towards the animal welfare charity’s Winter Feed fund. It will [...]
Get ready for one of the biggest steps of your life… Stepping back out over the top of the Europa Hotel, Belfast. After the success of last year’s CLAS Charity Abseil, the charity is organising another big adrenaline rush to raise funds. Crosskennan,CLAS, is now recruiting volunteers for the Crosskennan £5000 Drop and aim to raise [...]
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, [...]
