HORSE Sport Ireland would like to invite breeders to attend information evenings on the HSI Breeding Policy for the Irish Draught Horse and the Irish Sport Horse (including details of the 2010 Studbook Classification process). The second meeting is on Friday March 12 at New Park Hotel, Kilkenny.

MARA Dean (USA) has become the first rider to post a winning score on the HSBC FEI World Cup™ Eventing leaderboard, following an emotional pillar-to-post victory in the Florida sunshine at the Red Hills International CIC***-W at Tallahassee (USA) with the Irish-bred 'Nicki Henley'.

Results from San Lazzaro and Thermal

Rich Fellers (USA) and Flexible (ISH) were in the price money at Thermal, California, where they finished in third place in the €22,000 HITS Grand Prix and in seventh place in the FEI World Cup Grand Prix. Full results and breeding information are detailed below.

TWO very exciting educational events with the theme ‘Steps to Successful Breeding’ are planned for the 18th and the 24th of February at Doyle’s Equestrian Centre, Rathvilly, Carlow and Ravensdale Eqestrain Centre, Dundalk, Co. Louth respectively. These evenings from 7pm are hosted by Teagasc in association with the Army Equitation School

Cian O’Connor (IRL) and Irish Independent Echo Beach (ISH) enjoyed considerable success at the CSI4* show in Basel, Switzerland. On Friday, the duo were victorious in the €13,500 1m40 speed class. On Sunday, they went on to a record a second win in the €13,500 1m40 class and Cian also took the show’s Leading Rider award.

HORSE Sport Ireland’s Director of Breeding and Programmes Alison Corbally confirmed that Horse Sport Ireland had received over 30 submissions to its draft Irish Draught policy which was published earlier this month.

RTE'S 'Ear To The Ground' on Thursday night profiled the breeding of Irish sport horses as their second item. You can catch up with the programme on RTE Player HERE. The programme features interviews with Horse Sport Ireland Team Manager Robert Splaine, Col. Ned Campion and Cameron Hanley. It will also be repeated on Sunday December 6 at 1.20pm on RTE 1.

05/11/09 THE IRISH Sport Horse Studbook has topped the World Breeding Federation for Sport Horses Rankings for the breeding of event horses for the 15th year in succession. The success was confirmed at the congress of the World Breeding Federation for Sport Horses in Copenhagen where the prize was presented to Horse Sport Ireland Director of Breeding and Programmes Ms. Alison Corbally by her Royal Highness Princess Benedikte of Denmark. Speaking after receiving the award Ms. Corbally said that it was a significant achievement and she paid tribute to Irish breeders who had bred so many top eventers “For a small country this is a significant achievement and those who bred the horses deserve great credit” she said.

27/09/09 IN A spectacular finish, an Irish-bred horse today (Sunday) took the Silver Medal at the FEI World Breeding Championships for Young Horses at Lanaken, Belgium. Working his way up through a massive startlist of 242 horse-and-rider combinations, Army Equitation School rider Capt. David O'Brien made it through to today's Six year-Old World Final with the Minister for Defence's bay gelding 'Drumiller Lough' and came home just over two seconds behind the Gold Medal winner, Germany's Christian Ahlmann and 'Charles 56', in a 15-horse jump-off. Comdt. John Ledingham, Irish Chef d'Equipe at Lanaken, said this afternoon: "I believe 'Drumiller Lough' is one of the nicest horses to come out of Ireland, and is certainly now a live contender to represent the country in show jumping at the 2012 London Olympics. The combination gave a fantastic Silver Medal winning performance today, at a Six Year-Old world championships that had over 240 starters. It is an amazing achievement."