HSI announce DAFM Dressage Development Series dates for 2024

Horse Sport Ireland, in conjunction with the Department for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, is delighted to launch the dates and venues for the 2024 DAFM Dressage Development Series. Prize money of over €46,000 will be available across the league with prizes for 4-, 5-, 6- and 7- & 8-year-old horses, as well as breeders prizes. In 2024, three legs of the DAFM Dressage Development Series will feature standalone pony-only classes, for 5- and 6- & 7-Year-Old ponies.

This year, as in previous years, the DAFM Dressage Development Series will run as a league with four qualifying legs and a final. A minimum of one appearance in a qualifier, with minimum scores of 65% is required, to be eligible to attend the final.

The DAFM Dressage Development Series, delivered by Horse Sport Ireland; the National Federation, is open to all horses registered in a Studbook, main or supplementary section, with a specific breed documented within.
This can include main section studbook equines OR supplementary section studbook equines. Ponies must also have a studbook passport with a breed recorded to be eligible to compete and receive prize money. Horses and ponies with Identity Documents are not eligible to compete or obtain prize funds.

Breeders prizes will only be paid to breeders residing on the island of Ireland.

For more information in terms and eligibilities please CLICK HERE.

The dates and venues for the 2024 DAFM Dressage Development Series are as follows:

September 22nd: Horses only: Marlton Stud, Wicklow, Co. Wicklow

Weekend of October 5th: Horses & Ponies: Ballindenisk, Watergrasshill, Co. Cork.

Weekend of October 11th – 13th: Horses only: Meadows EC, Lurgan, Co. Armagh.

Weekend of Weekend of October 25th – 27th: Horses & Ponies: Danescroft, Lisburn, Co. Antrim.

November 3rd: Horses & Ponies: Coilog Equestrian, Kilmeague, Co. Kildare.

The DAFM Development Series is funded by the Department of Agriculture, Food, and the Marine under National Breeding Services.