Beating 152 other competitors, young Wexford rider Bertram Allen set Irish hopes high when he claimed first place in the opening speed competition of the World Equestrian Games’s show jumping element at Caen in France. Putting up a mature performance aboard the 10-year-old grey mare Molly Malone V, 19 year-old Allen, who won the Grand Prix […]
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Ireland’s show jumping team will be in action at the World Equestrian Games in Normandy. Ireland will compete, in alphabetical order, as: Bertram Allen with Ballywalter Farms’s Molly Malone V Cameron Hanley with Eleonore Paschoud and Yves Bouvier’s Antello Z Darragh Kenny with Hyperion Stud’s Imothep Denis Lynch with Thomas Straumann’s All Star 5The travelling reserve
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Sarah Ennis is in an impressive 10th place on Horseware Stellor Rebound at the Alltech World Equestrian Games in Normandy, France.The Meath-based eventer was last to go of three Irish riders on day one of dressage and scored an impressive 48.5 penalties.Britain’s William Fox-Pitt on Chilli Morning with 37.5pens, declared it was his stallion’s “best
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Best wishes to Ireland’s Eventing High Performance Manager Nick Turner and his team competing at the World Equestrian Games in Normandy: Aoife Clark with Fenya’s Elegance Sarah Ennis with Horseware Stellor Rebound Joseph Murphy with Electric Cruise Sam Watson with Horseware Bushman Camilla Speirs and Portersize Just a Jiff and Clare Abbott with Euro Prince
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Ireland will be fielding a 21-strong squad across five disciplines in the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games, which begin in Normandy, France, today and run through to September 7. Dressage will be the first competition in which the Irish are due to take part, both beginning on Monday. In Dressage, the country is represented by James Connor,
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Team Jumping medallist Michael Duffy is back in action in the men’s individual jumping competition on Saturday 23rd August. Click here for the entry list: http://result.nanjing2014.org/IRS/resYO2014/pdf/YO2014/EQ/YO2014_EQ_C32C_EQX002000.pdf The competition format is as follows: 1. Venue & Dates The equestrian competitions of Nanjing 2014 will be held at the Xinzhuang Equestrian Venue on 19
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Minister of State for Tourism and Sport, Michael Ring TD, extended his congratulations to show jumper, Michael Duffy, who was part of the European Show Jumping team that won Team Gold at the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China this week. Minister Ring said: ‘I would like to congratulate Michael on the key part he
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Michael Duffy has jumped a double clear round at the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing to lead Europe to the Team Gold Medal. http://result.nanjing2014.org/IRS/resYO2014/pdf/YO2014/EQ/YO2014_EQ_C92B_EQX402000.pdf Equestrian Date : Aug 19 – Aug 24 Number of athletes : 30 Results – Jumping International Team Round 1 Round 1Round 2 Start List Results Official Xinzhuang Equestrian Venue 19 Aug
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Horse Sport Ireland Show Jumping High Performance Manager Robert Splaine has confirmed the five horse and rider combinations that will represent Ireland at the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games in Normandy. The Show Jumping phase takes place from September 1st to September 7th. The squad of five riders in alphabetical order is: Bertram Allen with
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The Olympic Council of Ireland has learned with great sadness of the death of Tommy Brennan, who passed away at the age of 74. Tommy was an iconic figure in Irish equestrian sport, with an individual fourth place in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics with Kilkenny marking the beginning of an illustrious career. The combination went
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Irish show jumping team manager Robert Splaine has announced a list of combinations for the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games (WEG) in Normandy, France, where the jumping competitions take place from 2 – 7 September 2014. Splaine said: ” At this point these are the main contenders being considered. However my decision will be announced in
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The Irish Eventing Squad for the World Equestrian Games 2014 has been announced by Horse Sport Ireland’s Eventing High Performance Manager Nick Turner. The selected squad in alphabetical order is: •Clare Abbott riding Dr Cormac Mackay’s Euro Prince (ISH) •Aoife Clark riding PJ Hegarty’s Fenyas Elegance (ISH) (or Henrietta Duchess of Bedford
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