HORSE Sport Ireland’s show jumping team manager Robert Splaine today (Friday) confirmed his World Cup show selections for the remainder of 2014. The Irish riders who will represent Ireland at the Longines FEIÂ World Cup venues are: Lyon, France 29-02 November Billy Twomey and Cameron HanleyVerona, Italy 6-9 November Bertram Allen and Billy TwomeyStuttgart Germany 19-23 November Shane Breen and […] Continue Reading
TWOMEY SNATCHES SECOND PLACE IN LYON GRAND PRIX
IRELAND’S Billy Twomey is 20,000 euro richer tonight (Friday) after his second place finish in the Longines Grand Prix at Lyon, France, aboard Terry Payne’s gelding Diaghilev. The Cork rider was one of 12 in the jump-off at the World Cup fixture and held second place from early in the final round, outpaced only by Sweden’s Rolf-Göran Bengtsson and the […] Continue Reading
Emerald International open their doors this November
     ​ 14/10/2014 A group of some of Ireland’s top Show Jumping and Eventing riders visited Emerald International Equestrian Centre in Co Kildare with their horses on Tuesday 14th October to sample the fantastic facilities on offer, as Emerald International prepares for its forthcoming Irish Masters Show which runs from November 14th – 16th. 2014.  Those in […] Continue Reading
Ireland’s hero – Bertram wins Gold
PHOTO – Team RED MILLS rider Bertram Allen and the seven year old mare Barnike, on their way to winning the gold medal at the FEI World Breeding Jumping Championships for Young Horses 2014 at Lanaken in Belgium. (FEI/Dirk Caremans)Â Â 22/09/2014 Team RED MILLS show jumping rider Bertram Allen and the seven-year-old mare Barnike, have become the first combination […] Continue Reading
ALLEN ADDS MORE WORLD RANKING POINTS AFTER THIRD PLACE AT LAUSANNE
IRISH teenager Bertram Allen added valuable points to his Longines World Rider ranking when finishing third this evening (Sunday) in the big jump-off class at Lausanne in Switzerland. Wexford-born Allen, who is currently Ireland’s highest-placed rider with a 32nd position in the rankings, steered the chestnut stallion Romanov into the 12-strong second round, but at the finish was almost one-and-a-half […] Continue Reading
Good luck to our irish riders and horses competing in Lanaken next week
The FEI WBFSH World Breeding Jumping Championships for Young Horses will take place from 18th to 21st September in Lanaken, Belgium. Fifteen Irish Sport Horses have been selected to represent the Irish Sport Horse Studbook at these prestigious Championships for 5, 6 and 7 year old horses. The Irish Sport Horse Studbook has enjoyed huge success at Lanaken in recent […] Continue Reading
Kenny returns to American soil with a win
KENNY CLAIMS VICTORY ON HIS RETURN TO USA DARRAGH Kenny, a member of Ireland’s show jumping team at the World Equestrian Games last week, returned to his US base yesterday with a win at Old Salem, New York. Offaly native Kenny scored his first place at the four-star show on Allison Toffolon’s Irish Sport Horse Gatsby, and was joined in […] Continue Reading
Wexford’s Bertram Allen remains the best placed Irish rider at the World Equestrian Games in Normandy, lying in 14th place overall heading into today’s (Thursday) final round of the team competition .
Wexford’s Bertram Allen remains the best placed Irish rider at the World Equestrian Games in Normandy, lying in 14th place overall heading into today’s (Thursday) final round of the team competition . Allen knocked a single fence in yesterday’s round with his mare Molly Malone, adding to the clear he produced when winning Tuesday’s opening speed class and the […] Continue Reading
Tommy Brennan RIP – Our Hero
[photo-frame] [/photo-frame]INTERVIEWS – SPORTING LEGENDS OF IRELAND  TOMMY BRENNAN EVENTER & SHOWJUMPER You’ve clearly done something right when, nearly forty years after you won a Gold Medal for Ireland, you walk into a room to find 600 people gathered to celebrate an evening of ‘This is Your Life’, all in honour of you. Such was the predicament that legendary […] Continue Reading