Ireland’s Shane Sweetnam and Daniel Coyle have both booked their place in tomorrow’s (Tuesday) Olympic Show Jumping final in Paris, after commanding performances in today’s individual qualifier. Cork-born Sweetnam was the 13th rider into the arena in the individual qualifier…
For the sixth time in its 95-year history and the first time since 2010, the Irish Show Jumping team won the world famous five-star Mercedes-Benz Nations Cup of Aachen in Germany on Thursday night. It was a dominant performance from…
The 13-year-old gelding ESI Toulouse (ISH), bred by Cian O’Connor and formerly ridden by Mayo’s Cameron Hanley recorded an impressive victory in Sunday’s three-star World Cup Grand Prix at Prague in the Czech Republic. Just five of the 60 starters…
Irish-bred Eventing horses enjoyed fantastic success on both sides of the Atlantic at the weekend, with a string of top placings in the UK and Canada. The Emma Phelan-bred Hot Bobo (ISH), ridden by Karl Slezak (USA), stormed to victory…
Bred by the Roscommon farmer and coal miner Joe Flynn, he was the horse that won over €250,000 around the globe with Billy Twomey. One of the few fully approved Traditional Irish Horse stallions in the country, Ardcolum Duke is…
With just over two months to go before the start of the equestrian competitions at the Olympic Games in Paris, Michael Blake’s Irish Show Jumping team have claimed an impressive runner-up finish in today’s (Friday) five-star Italian Nations Cup in…
Writes Susan Finnerty MADRA RUA OUTFOXES THE COMPETITION They say that, “After bad luck comes great luck” and for midlands man Paul Cleary, that upturn happened at Balmoral Show as he bred this year’s supreme champion hunter: Madra Rua.Now owned…
Badminton 2024 champions Greenacres Special Cavalier (ISH), bred in Co Meath by Michael Callery and ridden by Caroline Powell (NZL) (Photo: Irish Eventing Times) Irish horses and riders have enjoyed phenomenal success at the 2024 five-star MARS Badminton Horse Trials,…
Cross Country day at the 2024 Badminton Horse Trials saw a huge shake-up at the top of the leaderboard, with two Irish riders fighting their way into the top five. Wexford’s Lucy Latta, who is competing at Badminton for the…
The 11-year-old mare Greenacres Special Cavalier (ISH), bred in Co Meath by Michael Callery and ridden by Caroline Powell (NZL), is in seventh place on a score of 30.0 following the conclusion of the Dressage phase at the 2024 Badminton…
