For the second year in-a-row, the Irish Show Jumping team have finished as runners-up in the Nations Cup of Ireland for the Aga Khan Trophy at the Dublin Horse Show, where the USA lifted the famous trophy for the eighth…
Report and photos by Susan Finnerty for The Irish Horse Board Day 2 of Dublin Horse Show and it lived up to its reputation as “Draught Day” with throngs of Irish Draughts enthusiasts, from home and abroad, gathered at Ring…
Amongst the throngs of overseas visitors to the Dublin Horse Show this week, you may spot this gentleman all the way from New South Wales. He’s James Balfe, originally from Claremorris and based Down Under since 1996 when the Mayo…
STARS ALIGN IN IRISH DRAUGHT PERFORMANCE CLASSES. Day 1 of the 2024 Dublin Horse Show and Wednesday is now established as performance day for the native breeds: Connemaras and Irish Draughts. And riding horses and Connemara stallions on parade, young…
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…
