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Well done everyone that competed in Wales and West this year. Great results!

A special well done to Sven Hadley and Adelgonde Z for winning the Junior Grand Prix and Mark Murphy and Dunsoghly Foxy for winning the small tour Grand Prix!

All riders entered for Wales & West MUST have temporary registration with British Show Jumping
To become a temporary visiting member of British Show Jumping you need to complete a membership form and tick the visiting category.
Membership forms can be downloaded here.

Fee for all horses/ponies is £10. If you need further assistance please contact Liz Bain, head of membership and registrations at BSJ on +44(0)2476698809 or email: liz.bain@britishshowjumping.co.uk

Also please note that you have to enter Wales and West directly before the 25th April 2012. All information can be found on their website: www.theshowground.com

You can see the presentation that was shown in Barnadown on Friday 6th April 2012 here!

Don't forget to enter the European International Trials for Young Riders/Juniors and Children On Horses in Barnadown from 6th to 9th April asap. You will be able to achieve your FEI Certificates of Competence there. Also just to remind you that there will be an information reception on Friday, 6th April at 6pm in Barnadown and all riders are requested to attend.

You can have a look at the schedule here.

You can check the FEI website here for an up to date calendar of FEI shows during the year.

The European International Trials for Young Riders/Juniors and Children on Horses sponsored by Pegus Horse Feeds, Horse Sport Ireland and Show Jumping Ireland will take place in Barnadown from April 6th to 9th 2012. Please click here to see the schedule.

Please note that there will be an information reception on Friday, 6th April at 6pm in Barnadown and all riders are requested to attend.

The information/assessment day planned in Kill Equestrian on 3rd March 2012 has to be postpone because of ongoing flood damage at Kill Equestrian centre. We will have more news regarding a new date and/or new venue next week.

The official team hotel for the Irish teams at the European Championships in Ebreichsdorf from 13th to 18th August will be the "Austria Trend Eventhotel Pyramide".
We have reserved 29 rooms at this stage (for coaches, vet, riders and parents) which can be canceled up to 31 days prior to arrival with no charge. Please note that Horse Sport Ireland will not pay for any of the riders or parents rooms, we are purely holding those rooms for the teams and parents at the moment.

Austria Trend Eventhotel Pyramide
Parkallee 2
A-2334 Vösendorf
Tel.: +43/1/699 00
Fax: +43/1/699 692
e-mail: eventhotel.pyramide@austria-trend.at
Web: www.austria-trend.at/Eventhotel-Pyramide
 

THE IRISH under-14 Children on Horses team scooped their first European Championship gold medal after a thrilling jump-off with Germany today (Saturday) at Comporta in Portugal.

With 16 nations competing over two days, Ireland last night were equal third with France, but this afternoon produced four consecutive clear rounds to tie with Germany on four faults, forcing a jump-off for the gold medal, which Ireland won with a fence in hand.

Cormac Hanley from Mayo, riding the Irish-bred 'Pageant Prince' went clear through all three rounds, while Waterford's Thomas Harty and another Irish-bred horse, 'Young Limerick', were clear in the first round, the discard score in the second, but recovered to produce four faults in the jump-off.

Tim McDonagh from Galway, riding 'Cord'Alou', produced a first round eight-faulter, but went clear in the second round and had four faults in the jump-off for the gold medal. Fermanagh's Kerry Taggart on yet another Irish-bred horse, 'Miss Contradiction', started with a single mistake in the first round but then went clear all the way to help the Irish team secure the European championship on a four fault total.

Germany collected eight faults in the jump-off to take the silver medal, while Britain, on six faults after two rounds, settled for bronze.

Ireland's Chef d'Equipe at the European Championships was Commandant John Ledingham, while the reserve rider was Tyrone's Hannah Smyth.

SHOW JUMPING RESULTS: EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS COMPORTA PORTUGAL JULY 4-10 2011

European Championship Final
Children On Horses
International Jumping Competition
Table A In Two Rounds
FEI Art 22.3+23.2+24
1m20
Saturday, July 9, 2011

1) Ireland 4 faults (after Jump Off)
Cormac Hanley; Pageant Prince (ISH Primo Pageant x Lady In Clover) 0/0/0 Thomas Harty; Young Limerick (ISH Ballinvella Lad x Limerick) 0/16/4 Tim MacDonagh; Cord'Alou 8/0/4 Kerry Taggart; Miss Contradiction (ISH) 4/0/0
2) Germany 8 faults (after Jump Off)
3) Great Britain 12 faults
=4) Poland 8 faults
=4) France 8 faults
=6) Italy 12 faults
=6) Belgium 12 faults
=8) Switzerland 16 faults
=8) Spain 16 faults
=10) Russia 20 faults
=10) Greece 20 faults