each year. The show is attended by approximately 100,000 visitors over its five-day duration and includes five-star
international showjumping, the centrepiece of which is the Aga Khan Nations Cup. In addition, a huge amount of
other international and national showjumping classes take place, as well as showing, eventing and pony classes.
Horse Sport Ireland (HSI) supports the three-year-old loose jumping competition and the four-, five- and six-year-old
national showjumping championship classes.
Ratoath, Co. Meath. Attended by more than 20,000 people, the event features a number of classes at international
and national level, and attracts top riders from all over the world to compete. The Irish Sport Horse Studbook is
the leading studbook for eventing horses in the world and the HSI Breeding Sub Board considers it strategically
important for Ireland to have a flagship eventing competition in the country.
place in May and is considered to be the world's premier three-day event. It attracts the elite of eventing competitors
both horses and riders. HSI supports Badminton in the form of promotion of the Irish Sport Horse Studbook the
world's leading studbook for eventing horses.
Irish-born horses with a total prize fund of 50,000, making this competition the one with the richest prize fund in
the world for young horses. Five per cent of the overall prize fund goes directly to breeders, with breeders' prizes
of 3,000 being provided by HSI. The prize fund is generated by voluntary contributions from organisations and
individuals with the Irish sport horse industry, including HSI.
Festival, in August each year at the showgrounds in Clifden, Co. Galway. HSI provides financial support to the show
each year. The show includes loose jumping, in-hand classes, ridden classes and working hunter classes.
in Ireland and maintaining a database of practising farriers. HSI provides annual funding towards the organisation's
activities.
chief executive, and Roger Casey,
Tattersalls Ireland managing director, at
Tattersalls International Horse Trial in
Ratoath, Co. Meath.