Coleman and Hush A Bye Baby imperious in Ballindenisk feature
The final international event on home soil took place at Ballindenisk, Co Cork with victory in the NutriScience CCI4*-L going to local rider Sian Coleman and the Irish Sport Horse Hush A Bye Baby. The 10-year-old mare is owned and bred by Kate Jarvey and this combination previously won the Horse Sport Ireland-sponsored CCI4*-L in Millstreet International in August 2022. Co. Cork’s Coleman was the only rider of the 11 finishers not to add to her dressage score. The weather certainly played its part as conditions proved far from ideal over the weekend despite the best efforts from the organisers. Time penalties cross-country were common with most riders coming home significantly over the optimum time. Aside from Coleman, Elizabeth Power was one of the few riders to get close to the time of 10 minutes 22 seconds, coming home just two seconds over. Ireland’s Patrick Whelan and Daragh Byrne, and […]
Allen caps off incredible Finals Day in Lanaken with gold medal
There was further success for Irish riders in the Seven-Year-Old final of the FEI WBFSH Jumping World Championships for Young Horses, with Co. Wexford’s Harry Allen taking home the gold medal with the Italian-bred mare Kumina Della Caccia after a thrilling 11-horse jump off that saw Co. Carlow’s Jason Foley also claim a top 10 finish with Mister Qerly Z. Nine years after older brother Bertram claimed the same Championship victory with Barnike, it was Harry Allen who threw caution to the wind to claim Ireland’s second gold medal of the day when stopping the clock in a time of 35.30 seconds. Coming to Lanaken on the back of some excellent international results this year at shows in Samorin (Slovakia), Chantilly (France), Aachen (Germany), Kronenberg (Netherlands), Bratislava (Slovakia) and Vejer De La Frontera (Spain), the world’s Number 183 ranked rider left nothing to chance when coming home 0.6 seconds faster […]
Laurina jumps to silver medal for Leah Stack in Lanaken
Fresh from Ireland’s historic morning in the Five-Year-Old division, the Horse Sport Ireland Studbooks Team were represented once more on the podium in the Six-Year-Old Grand Finals at the FEI WBFSH Jumping World Championships for Young Horses in Lanaken, Belgium after Co. Kildare’s Leah Stack piloted the mare Laurina (ISH), bred by the late great Dr. Noel Cawley, to the silver medal position. One of two Irish riders into the jump off, Stack and the Stakkato Gold-sired mare came home in a time of 35.75 seconds to take the lead at the time and sit atop the leaderboard until the World Number 212, Katrin Eckermann pipped her to win in a time of 34.06 with the Westphalian gelding, Casajall (WESTF). Last to go in the jump-off was Stack’s stablemate based out of the Broderick family’s Ballypatrick Stables in Co. Tipperary, silver medal winner from the Five-Year-Old Grand Final, Niamh McEvoy […]
Historic success for the Horse Sport Ireland Studbook Team in Lanaken
Irish eyes continued to smile at Day 3 of the FEI/WBFSH World Showjumping Championships for Young Horses where members of the Horse Sport Ireland Young Horse Squad were in action in the Consolation Finals in both the Five-Year-Old and Six-Year-Old divisions. In the Five-Year-Old class, Waterford’s Nicholas Connors rode a superb round when clear in a time of 61.65 seconds to go into the lead on the home bred, Jump The Gun (WSI). There he remained until Britain’s Georgia Wells and Obolensky’s Dollar Girl (AES) pipped them at the post when clear in a time of 60.59 for the Anglo European Studbook. Jump The Gun (WSI) is out of the mare Justjump (ISH) by the thoroughbred stallion Master Imp (TB). Justjump (ISH) competed at 1.35m for Nicholas, and in 1.30m Young Rider classes for his sister Laura where they took victory in the 2015 1.30m Young Riders Championship at the […]
Irish horses and riders continue to shine in Lanaken
It was a day of top sport at the FEI/WBFSH World Showjumping Championships for Young Horses in the Zangersheide Stud in Lanaken, Belgium which saw some fantastic rounds from the Horse Sport Ireland Young Horse Squad, as well as Irish athletes riding foreign-bred horses on Wildcard Selections. The 21 horses on the Studbooks Team were bolstered by a further 43 combinations of wildcards and Irish-bred horses representing other countries, with three for Britain two for the Netherlands and one for Portugal. Twelve combinations will look to continue Ireland’s rich history in the Five-Year-Old division including Ger O’Neill aiming to defend the title he won in 2022, this time with Ballyshan B F Super Hero (ISH). Jason Foley, Niamh McEvoy, Leah Stack and Mikey Pender all ride into Sunday’s Grand Final with two horses each. Fole takes SVS Symphony (ISH) and Castlefield Dancer (OS), Stack goes with Luisa (ISH) and Carlsberg […]
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Coleman and Hush A Bye Baby imperious in Ballindenisk feature
Allen caps off incredible Finals Day in Lanaken with gold medal
Irish riders lead the way with a clean sweep in Five-Year-Old Grand Finals
