Splaine reveals team for St. Gallen Nations’ Cup

IRELAND’S team for Friday’s top-level Furusiyya Nations’ Cup in St. Gallen, Switzerland was announced by Ireland’s show jumping team manager Robert Splaine this evening (Thursday).

Drawn to jump in the advantageous eighth position of eight teams competing, Ireland’s foursome will line out as follows:

Shane Breen with Golden Hawk
Greg Broderick with MHS Going Global (ISH)
Cian O’Connor with Good Luck
Bertram Allen with Romanov

St. Gallen is the third of four point-scoring Nations’ Cups allocated to Ireland for the 2015 season, with the last such competition taking place at the Dublin Horse Show in August. Belgium, France, Germany and Switzerland will also be chasing league points at St. Gallen.

The Swiss Nations’ Cup will begin at 2pm Irish time, and is available on livestream from www.feitv.org

Irish show jumping manager Robert Splaine