MEATH'S John Floody set his sights firmly on the HSI Chippison Spring Tour title when finishing first in the penultimate leg of the series in Clare Equestrian Centre, Co. Clare today (Sunday) with Michael Smith's Irish-bred gelding 'Larkhill Cruiser'.

EIGHTEEN year-old Robert Harrison cut through a substantial field of 56 starters to win the HSI Chippison Grand Prix at Mullingar Equestrian Centre, Co. Westmeath tonight (Saturday). Piloting his father Davids 'Unlimited Lady', Harrison was one of just eight to make it through to the jump-off on Tom Holden's course.

CORK'S Billy Twomey jumped up the rankings of the British Open Show Jumping Championship tonight (Saturday) when he placed fourth in the hard-fought final with Sue Davies's bay stallion 'Je t'Aime Flamenco'. Twomey's performance tonight with eleven penalties on the board meant he overtook Shane Breen, who dropped to seventh overall.

IT WAS Co. Down's Dermott Lennon who turned in the best Irish score of the day with a second place in the Accumulator competition at Birmingham, England this afternoon (Friday) with Woods Rosbotham's 'Hallmark Elite'. The 40 year-old former World Champion earned 5,000 euro for his runner-up effort, losing out to Britain's Guy Williams by just under two seconds.

IRISH-bred horses have produced some of the top results during the first two days of the British Open Show Jumping Championships at Birmingham, with two wins and three top ten places. Tonight 36 year-old Mark Kyle took victory in the Indoor Cross Country competition with 'Drunken Disorderly', while Shane Breen placed sixth on 'Mullaghdrin Gold Rain' in the championship class.

THE Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has rendered its final decision in the arbitration concerning the British Equestrian Federation (BEF) and the FEI. CAS has allowed the appeal of the BEF and has annulled the decision of the FEI Tribunal of 21 January 2010. This means that the British team will be allowed to take part in the 2010 Meydan FEI Nations Cup™.

MEATH-based Cian O'Connor was the man in the Easter Monday limelight at Warrington Equestrian Centre in Co. Kilkenny this afternoon, with two horses in the top six of the HSI Chippison Grand Prix. And it was Stephen O'Connor and Castlemartin Stud's 13 year-old gelding 'Complete' who took away the winner's rosette.

DENIS Lynch got into the prize money at the five-star show in Paris with a second place in the jump-off today (Sunday), while fellow Irish rider Jessica Kurten was just half a second behind, but the 9,000 euro first prize went to Sweden.

TWENTY two year-old Alexander Butler had a narrow victory in this afternoon's (Sunday) HSI Chippison Spring Tour Grand Prix at the Barnadown Equestrian Centre in Gorey, Co. Wexford, with Raymond Donohoe's Irish-bred 'Carton Free', one of five Irish-breds to feature in the top six.

JESSICA Kurten opened the scoring for Ireland at the five-star show in Paris this afternoon (Saturday) with a runner-up place in the hotly-contested speed class. The Antrim-born rider piloted Lady Georgina Forbes's 10 year-old chestnut mare 'Castle Forbes Cosma' to a scorching finish, but was beaten to the 15,000 euro first prize by Ontario-based Olympic gold medallist Eric Lamaze.