Equestrian

The seven horses of the Irish Olympic Three Day Event team enter quarantine at 11am on Thursday in Aachen, Germany, and will remain there until 29 July.

High Performance Coach and four-time Olympic medallist Ginny Elliot said that she had invited 14 riders to join an intense programme with a view to selecting five horses and riders for a team in Hong Kong.

HORSE SPORT IRELAND has announced the appointment of Ginny Elliot (formerly Leng) as the new High Performance Manager for Eventing.

JESSICA Kurten capped her good run of form at Leipzig, Germany today (Sunday) when she took a convincing victory in the Rolex World Cup Class, the Leipzig Grand Prix.

IRELAND'S Jessica Kurten has moved up to third place in the Rolex World Jumping Riders rankings in the new monthly table published by the FEI (Federation Equestre Internationale) 29/11/07

Just over a second separated the finishing times of the top three riders in tonight's (Saturday) Monaco Grand Prix jump-off, but it was Ireland's Jessica Kurten who proved the fastest, and who took home the 100,000 euro prize.

Irish show jumping produced its most convincing win of the 2007 season at Lummen, Belgium (Friday) when defeating 11 other teams to take the Nations’ Cup, its fourth victory in the current series.

In a thrilling jump-off against the clock, Cian O'Connor clinched the Nations Cup for Ireland at Poznan, Poland Friday afternoon.