Minister for Sport, Michael Ring, was at Claremorris this week to meet the Connacht members of Team Ireland Equestrian's European Under 14 Team show jumping Gold Medallists.

IN three competitions at the five-star show in Aachen, Germany today (Saturday) Irish riders claimed two wins and a total of four other top five places.

HOLDING joint fifth place at the halfway mark, Ireland's show jumping quartet of Shane Breen, Shane Sweetnam, Denis Lynch and Billy Twomey staged a remarkable second-round comeback to claim equal second place at the finish of the German Nations' Cup at Aachen tonight (Thursday), just one fence behind the winning Netherlands team.

HORSE Sport Ireland Chairman Joe Walsh has said that gold medal win by Team Ireland Equestrian’s under 14 show jumpers in the European Show jumping Championships is a huge boost for the Showjumping community in Ireland.

CORK'S Shane Sweetnam rounded off a successful week at the five-star show in Calgary Canada last night (Sunday) with a win in the prestigious Spruce Meadows Derby.

IRELAND will compete in the fifth leg of the FEI Nations' Cup Superleague at Aachen in Germany on Thursday night, and Team Ireland Equestrian's show jumping manager Robert Splaine has tonight (Sunday) named his squad for this important contest.

THE IRISH under-14 Children on Horses team took their first European Championship gold medal after a jump-off with Germany today (Saturday) at Comporta in Portugal. With 16 nations competing over two days, Ireland last night were equal third with France, but this afternoon produced four consecutive clear rounds to tie with Germany on four faults, forcing a jump-off for the gold medal, which Ireland won with a fence in hand.

TIPPERARY'S Shane Breen took the runner-up prize of 14,000 euro in this evening's (Saturday) Falsterbo Derby, conceding first place to France's Patrice Delaveau and 'Ornella Mail', who won 19,000 euro.

THOUGH finishing fifth in today's (Friday) Swedish Nations' Cup, Ireland held on to their important number two position on the world leaderboard with a total of 24 points after this fourth leg of the series, just 5.5 points behind leaders the Netherlands.

HORSE Sport Ireland has confirmed the Pony Show Jumping squad for the 2011 European Championships in Jaszkowo, Poland from July 26th until July 31st.