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Ravensdale Lodge Announce Autumn / Winter Event Schedule 2014

Ravensdale Lodge Announce Autumn / Winter Event Schedule 2014

| September 15, 2014

Ravensdale Lodge have set the following dates for their Autumn / Winter leagues: Thursday 25th September to Thursday 11th December: Indoor SJI registered horse league. Modified classes from 80cm to 1.30m, start time 11am. Friday 26th September to Friday 12th December: Indoor Horse & pony training league, classes from X poles to 1.10m, start time [...]

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Connors Crowned Connolly’s Red Mills Munster GP League Champion

Connors Crowned Connolly’s Red Mills Munster GP League Champion

| September 15, 2014

The final round of the Connolly’s RED MILLS Munster Grand Prix league at Banteer Gymkhana served up another thrilling competition in the 2014 series, with the result hanging in the balance right up to the end. At the finish it was Tipperary’s Liam O Meara who took the winners prize at Cork showgrounds with Zamir, [...]

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CAFRE Rider Development Workshop at Lusks

CAFRE Rider Development Workshop at Lusks

| September 15, 2014

CAFRE is hosting a Rider Development workshop on Friday 3rd October at Lusk’s Equestrian Centre, Lisburn, BT27 6YB. The workshop will include demonstrations of horses and riders and talks on rider asymmetry, balance and performance analysis for the rider and how they affect the horse’s way of going. This workshop is a must for all [...]

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Bertram Allen Adds More World Ranking Points After 3rd Place at Lausanne

Bertram Allen Adds More World Ranking Points After 3rd Place at Lausanne

| September 15, 2014

IRISH teenager Bertram Allen added valuable points to his Longines World Rider ranking when finishing third on Sunday evening in the big jump-off class at Lausanne in Switzerland. Wexford-born Allen, who is currently Ireland’s highest-placed rider with a 32nd position in the rankings, steered the chestnut stallion Romanov into the 12-strong second round, but at [...]

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Horse Sport Ireland Announces New Level 2 Coaches

Horse Sport Ireland Announces New Level 2 Coaches

| September 15, 2014

HORSE Sport Ireland (HSI) Level 2 candidates completed their final assessments last week at Spruce Lodge Training Facility, Redcross, Co. Wicklow and Grange Farm, Kilcock. The HSI Level 2 Coach qualification is the first level where coaches are qualified to coach independently and currently the first stage where candidates must produce the required standard at [...]

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Final of Connolly’s Red Mills Munster Grand Prix League This Sunday

Final of Connolly’s Red Mills Munster Grand Prix League This Sunday

| September 12, 2014

After 14 thrilling rounds held throughout the Munster province, the 2014 Connolly’s RED MILLS Munster Grand Prix League comes to a conclusion this Sunday, as the €20,000 Banteer Gymkhana at Cork Showgrounds hosts the final leg of the series, with the league title still hanging in the balance. A titanic battle has developed between Waterford’s [...]

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Tipp’s Greg Broderick Lands International Win at Arezzo With Rincarina

Tipp’s Greg Broderick Lands International Win at Arezzo With Rincarina

| September 12, 2014

Tipperary’s Greg Broderick beat off a top class international field of 45 horses and riders, to win Thursday’s two-phase competition at the 2 star show in Arezzo, Italy. Written by Brian Hennessy Broderick was riding the Noel Cawley owned ten-year-old Crusing mare Rincarina, and finished with well over a second in hand over his nearest [...]

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Ireland’s Lanaken 2014 Team Announced

Ireland’s Lanaken 2014 Team Announced

| September 12, 2014

The FEI WBFSH World Breeding Jumping Championships for Young Horses will take place from 18th to 21st September in Lanaken, Belgium. Fifteen Irish Sport Horses have been selected to represent the Irish Sport Horse Studbook at these prestigious Championships for 5, 6 and 7 year old horses. The Irish Sport Horse Studbook has enjoyed huge [...]

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Ireland Through to Semi Finals At European Polo Championships

Ireland Through to Semi Finals At European Polo Championships

| September 11, 2014

IRELAND beat England 7 goals to 6 in yesterday’s game at the European Polo Championships in Chantilly, France and go through to the semi-finals on Friday. Ireland’s Max Hutchinson and Sebastian Dawnway were scorers. Both teams were undefeated until this point. The Irish team faced England at the FIP European Championships having beaten both Austria [...]

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Irish hunter sale day draws near

Irish hunter sale day draws near

| September 10, 2014

Some 40 quality Irish-bred hunters will go under the hammer in the Hunter Show And Go Sale taking place at Scarteen Stud on Tuesday, October 7th. Following on from the success of the first sale in 2013, this is once again being run by the Traditional Irish Horse Association. “We are really looking forward to [...]

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Harry Meade at the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials 2014

Harry Meade at the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials 2014

| September 10, 2014

As title sponsor of the Burghley Horse Trials, and proud partner of the British Equestrian Federation, Land Rover spoke exclusively to Team GBR rider Harry Meade. Hear what Burghley means to Harry and his reflections on the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games TM where Harry experienced mixed emotions following the tragic death of his horse [...]

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The Pony Club’s Chief Executive Announces She Will Step Down

The Pony Club’s Chief Executive Announces She Will Step Down

| September 9, 2014

The Pony Club’s Chief Executive, Judy Edwards, has announced that she will be stepping down at the end of March 2015. Judy, a former Trustee of The Pony Club was appointed as Chief Executive in 2005. A well respected equestrian figure, Judy enjoyed a competitive career before creating Coppice Acres Show Jumping Arena at her [...]

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Dubbeldam Makes it Double-Dutch Gold

Dubbeldam Makes it Double-Dutch Gold

| September 9, 2014

Jeroen Dubbeldam made it double-gold at the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games™ 2014 in Normandy today when adding the individual title to last Thursday’s team victory for The Netherlands. He made his way into this afternoon’s top-four Jumping final thanks to a horse that he admitted was inexperienced at this level of the sport and which clearly [...]

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FEI Classics™: Nicholson and Avebury are simply the best at Burghley

FEI Classics™: Nicholson and Avebury are simply the best at Burghley

| September 9, 2014

There was a fairytale ending to the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials when New Zealander Andrew Nicholson (NZL) and his delightful grey gelding Avebury made history with a third successive victory at this always challenging British CCI4*. Written by By Kate Green The legendary New Zealander also sprang into a bonus fourth place in the FEI Classics™, [...]

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Down Royal starts £250,000 renovation in final stage of major investment

Down Royal starts £250,000 renovation in final stage of major investment

| September 9, 2014

A major, multi-million pound investment programme at Down Royal Racecourse will be completed next month after it officially unveils a brand new bar and social space, it was announced today. Down Royal, which has already invested over £5 million in its racing and hospitality facilities, said it is spending a further £250,000 as part of [...]

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