


HMR Rolan (WSI) and James Alliston (USA) When someone mentions the word ‘warmblood’, you’d be forgiven for thinking first of Europe’s many historic studbooks, such as the KWPN or Hanoverian. Yet since 2009, a new breed has been established, offering the best of continental warmblood genetics combined with the benefit of Irish upbringing – the Irish Warmblood. A full member of…

Winning combination Max KUHNER (AUT) & EIC COOLEY JUMP THE Q at the prizegiving of THE LONGINES FEI JUMPING WORLD CUP™ presented by Agria – London International Horse Show, Excel London, (Photo: Jon Stroud Media) EIC Cooley Jump the Q (ISH), bred in Co Wicklow by Pam Walshe and ridden by Austria’s Max Kuhner, added…

Ireland’s Tom Wachman has become one of the youngest ever winners of the London International Grand Prix, after the 20-year-old from Co Tipperary partnered the 12-year-old gelding Do It Easy to a superb victory on Monday night at the Excel Arena in England. Just five of the 34 starters made it into the jump-off, with…

Cian O’Connor and Chatolinue PS. Irish showjumping riders were in good form on the opening day of action at Geneva’s prestigious five-star show in Switzerland on Thursday, with Meath’s Cian O’Connor and Kilkenny’s Timmy Brennan featuring strongly. World No.22 O’Connor scored two podium places, beginning with a third place finish with the 11-year-old mare Canbella…