For the second year in-a-row and for the 24th time in the 29-year history of the rankings, The Irish Sport Horse Studbook has topped the final WBFSH Eventing Studbook rankings. The WBFSH rankings run in a 12-month cycle from October…
Irish horses and riders have enjoyed fantastic success over five days of action at the Horse Of The Year Show, held at the NEC in Birmingham, Great Britain, with a host of Irish wins in the showing classes and jumping…
Photo: Leah Stack (centre) pictured with Lisa Cawley (right) and her husband Joe (left) following victory for Laurina (ISH) in the five-year-old final at the FEI/WBFSH World Breeding Jumping Championships for Young Horses Kildare’s Leah Stack has added to Ireland’s…
(l-r) Ireland’s Niamh McEvoy, Mikey Pender and Ger O’Neill made it an all-Irish podium in the 5-year-old Show Jumping horses at the 2023 FEI/WBFSH World Breeding Jumping Championships for Young Horses in Lanaken, Belgium (Photo: Irish Horse Board) A stunning…
In another boost for Irish horse breeders and the Irish Sport Horse industry, the latest World Breeding Federation for Sport Horses (WBFSH) Studbook Rankings shows that the Irish Sport Horse Studbook has continued it’s rise up the Show Jumping rankings,…
For the fifth time in-a-row, an Irish-bred horse has taken victory in the five-star Defender Burghley Horse Trials in the UK. Bred by Noel Hickey in Co Limerick and ridden by Oliver Townend (GBR), Ballaghmore Class started the final Show…
Sam Watson and the Irish-bred SAP Talisman (ISH) (Photo: Irish Eventing Times) Irish-bred horses fill six of the top 10 places following today’s Cross Country phase at the five-star Defender Burghley Horse Trials in the UK. Ballaghmor Class (ISH), bred…
The 98th Annual Connemara Pony Show took place this week (Aug 15th-18th) at the Showgrounds, Clifden, Co Galway, with a huge turnout of competitors, spectators and potential purchasers from Ireland and overseas. Supreme Champion 2023 – Dunloughan Troy (Photo: Connemara…
It may have been the fourth day of Dublin Horse Show but not in living memory could any of the ringside stalwarts remember a Laidlaw Cup young horse champion returning the following year to match up with a win in…
Photo: Comdt. Geoff Curran and the Irish-bred Glengarra Wood (ISH) The 2023 Showjumping Ireland Premier Series reached it’s conclusion this weekend at Mullingar Equestrian Centre, where Waterford-born army rider Comdt. Geoff Curran and the Irish-bred Glengarra Wood (ISH) took victory with the…
