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, [...]
Cup No. 98 – Perpetual Challenge Trophy Presented by the Royal Dublin Society for the Best Hunter Mare. The first and second prize-winning mares in Classes 3, 5, 6, 10 & 11 will compete for the trophy. Rank Cat. No Horse Name Owner Rider Winner 43 Tattygare Good To Go Hurst Show Team Reserve 47 [...]
The first ever International Connemara Performance competition will take place during the 2015 Discover Ireland Dublin Horse Show, August 5 – 9. Teams from Ireland, the UK and France will compete in the competition based on the format of the highly successful Connemara Performance Hunter Championship. Three teams of four pony and rider combinations will [...]
IRELAND dominated the Puissance competition at the Discover Ireland Dublin Horse Show last night (Saturday), with nine combinations clear after the second jump-off, and the failure of last year’s winner, Colombia’s Daniel Bluman, to make it past the two metre height. But it was Cork’s Billy Twomey and Kilkenny’s Michael Hutchinson who shared the 20,000 [...]
Class 92: Working Hunter Ponies (Starter Stakes) Mares & geldings, four years old & over, not exceeding 133cm. Suitable for and to be ridden by riders who have not attained their 12th birthday by 1 January 2014. Rank Cat. No Horse Name Owner Rider 1st 784 Tybroughney Cloud Judy Quirke Richard Quirke 2nd 775 Littlerock [...]
Class 73: Ridden Connemara Ponies Registered connemara mares & geldings, four & five years old. Suitable for and to be ridden by riders who have attained their 12th birthday by 1 January 2014. Rank Cat. No Horse Name Owner Rider 1st 578 Glencairn Ivy Joan Dahill Pauline Dahill 2nd 622 Roo Bella Laura McWeeney [...]
Class 43: Performance Irish Draught Irish Draught mares, geldings & stallions, four and five years old, 155cms and over. To be ridden by riders who have attained their 16th birthday by 1 January 2014. Rank Cat. No Horse Name Owner Rider 1st 323 Dowdstown Dancer Jackie Marsh Lynne Ireland 2nd 319 Cahir View Lad Maurice [...]
A formidable list of International riders has been confirmed for this week’s Discover Ireland Dublin Horse Show at the RDS, including the eight teams who will do battle in Friday’s Furusiyya Nations Cup competition for the Aga Khan Trophy. Written by Brian Hennessy Six of the top ten riders in the world will be in action [...]
Tipperary’s Greg Broderick riding Hitchcock Van Overis, took the winners prize in Barnadown’s third RDS qualifier for this year’s Connolly’s RED MILLS 7 & 8 year-old International class, to be held at The Discover Ireland Dublin Horse Show. Written by Brian Hennessy Owned by Mary Ellen De Ruschi, the seven year old stallion Hitchcock Van [...]
After an intensive campaign to get to to the finals in Dublin, the Mid Antrim Hunt Inter Hunt Chase team competed very successfully at the Dublin Horse Show recently. They came third equal and were only knocked out by the eventual winners, the Killinicks in the semi finals. Congratulations must go to the efforts of [...]
Class 88: Junior Equitation Mares, geldings & stallions, not exceeding 138cms. For riders over ten and under fourteen years of age on 1 January 2013. Rank Cat. No Horse Name Owner Rider 1st 691 Violet Banks Matador Pia Crowe Jack Crowe 2nd 699 Magical Millicent Damien McPhillips Paul McPhillips 3rd 768 Ashfield Trobadour [...]
Martin Wilson and Hermes Diamond were unbeatable in the Dublin main arena this morning as one of only two AA riders to make it through to the jump off. Stopping the clock at 27.56, they finished over seven seconds ahead of their nearest rival Denise Prendergast on Coldstream Arkonvella, who jumped the only other double [...]
Class 92: Working Hunter Ponies (Starter Stakes) Mares & geldings, four years old and over, not exceeding 133cm. Suitable for and to be ridden by riders who have not attained their 12th birthday by 1 January 2013. Rank Cat. No Horse Name Owner Rider 1st 761 Dun Master Marjorie Hardiman Jane Field 2nd [...]
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, [...]
