Category Irish Bred Horse Success

Galway’s Andrew Bourns and the Irish-bred Sea Topblue (ISH) finished best of the Irish in last night’s (Saturday) $1Million ATCO Queen Elizabeth II Cup at Spruce Meadows in Florida. The top 12 combinations from the first round went forward to…

The Marguerite Ryan owned and bred gelding BBS McGregor (ISH) scored a fourth place finish for Kilkenny’s Jack Ryan in the 1m50 speed class on Saturday evening, at Valkenswaard four-star fixture in The Netherlands. Drawn 17th to jump of 40…

An Irish team that included two Irish-bred horses made history at the famous Piazza Di Sienna in Rome

An outstanding performance from Irish horses and Irish breeders at the world famous five-star Badminton International Horse Trials in the UK

For the second year in-a-row and the third time in the last four years, Ireland took victory in the Longines FEI Jumping Nations Cup in Vancouver, Canada.

Irish-bred horses were in fine form at Mullingar International Horse Show in Co Westmeath, filling two of the top three places in the feature two-star Grand Prix

Irish rider Adam Carey partnered CSF Keatingstown Blue Lagoon (ISH) to victory in the  €4,000 1.40m and to second place in the €26,200 1.45m at the CSI3* in Canelau, France last weekend. Bred by Patrick Connolly and owned by Sharon Fitzpatrick

Ballaghmor Class (ISH) finished best of the Irish-bred horses at Badminton Horse Trials, coming home in second place with British rider Oliver Townend. Bred by Noel Hickey, this is the seventh top five placing at 5* level for this combination.

Olympian Bertram Allen and the Irish Sport Horse Pacino Amiro finished a magnificent third place in the €500,000 1.60m Rolex Grand Prix at Windsor on Sunday.