RICH Fellers from Wilsonville, Oregon and the Irish-bred stallion 'Flexible', owned by Harry and Mollie Chapman, continued to prove why they are the hottest horse-and-rider combination at the 2011 HITS Desert Circuit when they topped the field in the $31,000 Strongid C 2X Welcome Classic on Thursday night.

SHANE Carey opened the batting at Gothenburg's World Cup show in Sweden tonight (Thursday) with Ireland's first top five place.

DENIS Lynch, Ireland's only competitor at Neumunster's Grand Prix in Germany this afternoon, narrowly missed taking first place in a tightly-fought battle at the finish with Belgium's Jan Vinckier, who stopped the clock just one-and-a-half seconds ahead of the Tipperary rider.

TEAM Ireland Equestrian's show jumping manager Robert Splaine made an unexpected appearance at the second leg of the HSI Chippison Spring Tour tonight (Sunday) and ended up winning the class.

THE second leg of the HSI Chippison Spring Tour takes place at Cavan Equestrian Centre on Sunday February 20. The revised startlist may be downloaded HERE

TIPPERARY'S Shane Breen took fifth place this afternoon (Sunday) in the three-star Grand Prix at Dortmund in Germany, aboard Ronan Tynan's bay Irish-bred stallion 'Warrenstown You 2'.

DENIS Lynch concluded a good week for the Irish at Vigo's five-star show in Spain tonight (Sunday) when finishing fifth in the final competition, the Concello de Vigo Grand Prix.

JESSICA Kurten added a third consecutive top ten placing to her tally at Spain's five star World Cup show in Vigo this evening (Saturday).

IRELAND'S Jennifer Crooks recorded one of just three double clear rounds at last night's (Thursday) WEF Challenge Cup in Wellington, Florida, and claimed third prize.

DENIS Lynch took first honours for Ireland in the opening competition of Vigo's World Cup show in Spain this evening (Friday) with a win in the Two Phase competition on Thomas Straumann's bay gelding 'Tarpan'.