SIX Irish riders will continue to fight for points and prize money at the Winter Equestrian Festival at Palm Beach, Florida as it enters its fifth weekend today (Thursday).

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KILKENNY native Richie Moloney shared victory tonight (Thursday) in the 32,000 dollar WEF Challenge Cup at Wellington in Florida on the Irish-bred gelding Slieveanorra. Meanwhile fellow Irish rider Darragh Kenny took third place in the first section of the Challenge Cup contest with the nine year-old gelding Wannahave.

Because of a record 107 entries for the three-star competition, the class was split into two, with 54 riders starting in Section A and 53 in Section B.

LIMERICK-born Shane Carey this evening (Saturday) claimed second place in the Grand Prix at Treffen Villach in Austria, riding the Acorado mare Trebox Acorada, owned by Ronnoco Jump, Cian O'Connor's company.

IN A thrilling jump-off at the World Cup competition in Bordeaux, France tonight (Saturday) Tipperary's Denis Lynch took fourth place with his own stallion Contifex, maintaining his third place overall in the World Cup rankings, but narrowing the gap with the leader.

WITH just two rounds of the Rolex FEI World Cup series left before April's final, the quest for points will start to reach boiling point at this weekend's 11th leg at Bordeaux in France, with two Irish riders prominent in the mix.

CAMERON Hanley has undergone 17 operations during the last eight months, four of which he has spent in hospital. The Mayo-born show jumper is unlikely to be back in the saddle until 2013, and in the meantime will have to restrict his equestrian activities to coaching and finding horses for clients.

THOUGH there have been several top ten places chalked up by Irish riders at the World Cup show in Zurich this weekend, it was Tipperary's Denis Lynch who recorded the first win when streaking home in tonight's (Saturday) speed class.

CORK'S Billy Twomey and Tipperary's Denis Lynch will continue Ireland's battle for two Olympic places in show jumping when they compete at the World Cup show in Zurich, Switzerland, this weekend.

EQUESTRIAN Sport Productions have announced Horseware Ireland as the title sponsor of week three at the 2012 FTI Consulting Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF).