JAN Tops and Edwina Alexander were married at Saint Paul’s Church in Monaco on Saturday, 17th September. Jan, founder and president of the Global Champions Tour, and Edwina, the world’s top ranking female rider, celebrated their wedding with close family and friends at the Hotel de Paris.

THE Swedish team came out the winners at the Promotional League Final in Barcelona, Spain yesterday afternoon (Sunday) and will now rejoin the elite eight-nation FEI Nations Cup™ series in 2012. But, on a roller-coaster afternoon, it took a monumental effort from last-line Swedish rider Rolf-Goran Bengtsson to seal the coveted qualifying spot.

IRELAND'S Cian O'Connor stayed well within the prize money bracket when finishing fifth in the five-star Barcelona Grand Prix in Spain tonight (Friday).

OVER 70,000 people saw the OB Sport special on the European Jumping Championships at Madrid on RTE last Monday night. However, if you missed it there's another chance now to see the programme on RTE Player.

IRELAND'S Billy Twomey finished in 15th place in today's (Sunday) Individual Final at the European Jumping Championships at Madrid, Spain, while fellow Cork rider Shane Sweetnam took 17th place.

CORK'S Billy Twomey collected 7,000 euro for a fourth place in this evening's (Saturday) Grand Prix at the five-star show in Madrid, Spain. One of ten double clears in the 1m55 competition the 34 year-old Irish rider piloted Sue Davies's stallion Je t'Aime Flamenco.

IRELAND'S show jumping team finished ninth in the final of the European Championships at Madrid, Spain, this evening but team member Billy Twomey qualified for Sunday's Individual Final by finishing in the top 25.

IRELAND’S show jumpers could be in medal contention at the London Olympics - if they qualify at this week's European Championships. The championships, which begin tomorrow (Tuesday) in Madrid, represent the last chance for Ireland to qualify a team for the 2012 Olympic Games.

IRELAND'S show jumping team finished sixth in the five-star Nations' Cup at Gijon, Spain this afternoon (Saturday). Gijon, which is part of the FEI Promotional League of Nations' Cups, saw ten teams competing, but with Ireland not seeking points outside its Superleague status.

A total of 86 riders from 22 nations have been declared for the FEI European Jumping Championships 2011. Venue for this year’s FEI European Jumping Championships is the stunning Club de Campo Villa de Madrid, one of Spain’s oldest and most prestigious country clubs formed in 1929.