A new online TV channel dedicated to both Irish Horse Racing and Irish Sport Horse disciplines is ready to air from early February 2013. Irish Horse TV will be the first Irish station of its kind which combines flat and jump racing, excluding live racing, with the Olympic disciplines of show jumping, eventing, dressage as […]
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Horse Sport Ireland today celebrated their outstanding equestrian year with an Awards ceremony at Croke Park. Cian O’Connor re-lived his medal winning performance in London by jumping a replica fence on the pitch of Croke Park. Cian received an Award for his outstanding performance, along with Ireland’s Paralympic Equestrian Team. Ireland’s eventing
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Olympic show jumping Bronze Medallist Cian O’Connor is competing at the FEI International Show in Beijing this week. Before going to China he met with the Chinese ambassador Luo Linquan at his residence in Dublin. Horse Sport Ireland was part of Minister Simon Coveney’s trade mission to Beijing earlier this year. On the trip, opportunities
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Cian O’Connor narrowly failed to qualify for the Olympic show jumping final when his gelding Blue Loyd had three fences down, giving the rider a total of 20 penalties over three qualifying rounds, leaving him as the first reserve for the final. O’Connor will have to wait to see if any of the qualified horses
The second qualifier of the show jumping is complete and Cian O’Connor has qualified but Billy Twomey has been eliminated. O’Connor is in a share of 31st place after today’s action in Greenwich Park. He will resume the Olympic Final qualification process on Monday. There were a total of 12 clear rounds today.
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Billy Twomey and Cian O’Connor qualified today (Saturday) for the next round of the Olympic show jumping competition, with O’Connor going clear but Twomey picking up four faults that will influence his starting position in the second qualifier and will affect his total score at the end of the three qualifying rounds. Cork-born Twomey was
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Aoife Clark added to Ireland’s Eventing success at the Olympics this afternoon (Tuesday) by finishing seventh in the Individual Final. The 30 year-old, riding the bay gelding Master Crusoe, qualified for the final with a textbook clear show jumping round in this morning’s Team Final, and repeated the magic this afternoon to end the day
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Ireland have finished fifth in the Olympics Equestrian Eventing, with Germany claiming the gold medal. Great Britain claimed silver with the bronze medal going to New Zealand, who just edged out Sweden in the final jumping leg. Ireland started the day in eighth place after a tricky day yesterday when they lost both Micheal Ryan
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Camilla Speirs is the best of the Irish after the completion of the dressage phase of the eventing. The Kildare woman finished in a share of 27th place after scoring just 47.60 penalty points on Portersize Just A Jiff. Aoife Clark is next best of the Irish in 32nd place (48.90), while Joseph Murhy is
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Dublin’s Aoife Clark was ranked overnight 12th after a formidable Olympic performance on Master Crusoe in the first day of dressage in Olympic Three Day Eventing at Greenwich Park today (Saturday). The 30 year-old, riding the Irish-bred Master Crusoe, recorded a penalty score of 48.90, which gives her a marked advantage when she begins the
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Team Ireland Equestrian’s Eventing High Performance Manager Ginny Elliot has named a shortlist of ten riders and 11 horses for Olympic selection. At present Ireland is assured of a team of at least three riders at the games, but this could increase to four or five on June 17th, depending on whether other countries who
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Ireland’s second biggest equestrian event, Tattersalls International Horse Trials in association with Horse Sport Ireland, takes place this weekend in County Meath with the focus firmly on selection for the Olympic Games. While Irish riders and competitors from other countries will be trying to win the event at Tattersalls, they will also be eager to
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