The first Irish World Cup win of the 2026 season has gone to Tipperary’s Shane Breen, after he partnered the 10-year-old gelding BP Arctic Blue to superb win in today’s (Sunday) four-star Al Shira’aa Longines FEI World Cup Grand Prix…
Dolmen Sport Horses, New Ross, County Wexford The Irish Horse Board announces with deep regret, the death of Dr Jack Murphy of Dolmen Sport Horses, New Ross, County Wexford, on 20th January 2026. A distinguished equine business lecturer, Irish Horse…
In the windswept peat bogs of County Kerry, where the ground stays perpetually soft, an unlikely equine survivor has defied extinction. The Kerry Bog Pony, standing at roughly 10 to 12 hands high, represents one of Ireland’s most remarkable conservation…
Irish horses and riders recorded a number of notable results this week in Florida, USA, including Co Clare’s Philip McGuane who guided the 11-year-old mare Paso Doble SCF to a runner-up finish in Sunday’s $140,000 three-star Grand Prix to close…
General public registration now open as excitement builds around Team Ireland’s LA28 base in Long Beach The road to the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games has gathered further momentum, with the opening of registration for the first public Olympic Games…
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…
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…
EIC Cooley Jump the Q (ISH), bred in Co Wicklow by Pam Walshe and ridden by Austria’s Max Kuhner, added to their already impressive list of major international wins, when they powered to victory in today’s (Sunday) five-star Longines FEI…
Cork-born Olympian Shane Sweetnam and the Patrick Connolly-bred gelding CSF James Kann Cruz (ISH) have produced another exceptional performance on the world stage, to finish as runners-up in today’s (Sunday) five-star Rolex Grand Prix of Geneva in Switzerland. The competition…
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…
