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.

THE HSI Chippison Spring Tour continues this weekend at Barnadown (Easter Sunday) and Warrington (Easter Monday). To download the startlist for Barnadown click HERE and for Warrington click HERE

THE final leg of equestrian sport’s biggest team competition will be held in Ireland this year. The concluding competition of the Meydan Nations' Cup series will be the Nations' Cup of Ireland for the Aga Khan Trophy at the Failte Ireland Dublin Horse Show in August.

The Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI) has announced that it has renewed its partnership with Meydan for the title sponsorship of Jumping’s premier team competition, the Meydan FEI Nations Cup™. The deal covers the 2010 season.

A TENTH of a second denied Ireland's Jessica Kurten the ultimate prize of the weekend at Holland's five-star World Cup show when she finished second to Sweden's Rolf-Goran Bengtsson in the Rolex FEI World Cup competition this afternoon (Sunday). After a string of dazzling results at 's-Hertogenbosch, the Antrim-born rider was forced to concede victory in the ten-horse jump-off today.