THOUGH the 2010 Meydan Superleague has now finished, Ireland's top show jumpers are keeping their finger on the team trigger with an excursion to Gijon in Spain this weekend, where there's a five-star Nations' Cup and a 125,000 euro Grand Prix to help keep riders and horses at battle readiness.

THE International Affairs Committee of the Association of Irish Riding Clubs (AIRC) has announced the team which will represent the Association at the British Riding Clubs (BRC) Championships next month. Greenhills Riding Club will make a return visit to the Lincolnshire Show grounds on 11th September where they will compete against the best of the riding clubs in Britain.

THE Irish team has been selected for the World University Equestrian Championships taking place from the 28th of October to the 3rd of November in Sangju, South Korea. The team is: Ben Crawford (Queens), Nicola FitzGibbon (TCD), Sara Glynn (DIT) and Suzie Cave - travelling reserve (Open University)

TIPPERARY'S Denis Lynch and Cork's Billy Twomey will be amongst the world's top 30 show jumpers who compete in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil this weekend in the final leg of the 2010 Global Champions' Tour.

DISTINGUISHED Irish-based British actor and enthusiastic horseman Jeremy Irons is supporting the 2010 awards organised by the Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI), the governing body of horse sport.

HORSE Sport Ireland’s High Performance Manager Ginny Elliot has confirmed that she will announce the final five combinations to travel to the World Equestrian Games after the Highclere event in the UK which takes place on August 30th.

SIX Irish riders begin the gruelling four-day Junior European Eventing Championships in Germany today (Thursday) under Team Ireland Equestrian’s Junior Eventing High Performance Manager Cmdt Brian MacSweeney.

A TOTAL of 31 Irish eventing riders will compete at one, two and three star level in Hartpury, Great Britain this weekend, one of the largest contingents seen at a British event this season.

IN A major move to ensure that Ireland's equestrian participation in the London Olympics is not spoiled by doping, the OCI and Horse Sport Ireland have signed a comprehensive Agreement covering a wide range of topics including anti-doping.

HORSE Sport Ireland has issued an update on its plans for the World Equestrian Games (WEG). At yesterday’s (Monday) press briefing in Dublin, Team Ireland Equestrian’s Show Jumping Manager Robert Splaine confirmed that he had selected three of the squad of five riders to represent Ireland in Show Jumping.