Top performances at the London Olympics, a Rolex FEI Show Jumping World Cup win, and Ireland reclaiming first place in world studbook eventing rankings, were reflected at the presentation of the Horse Sport Ireland 2012 Breeders’ Awards.

Equestrian facilities are to be developed at the National Sports Campus in Abbotstown, Dublin, Horse Sport Ireland has confirmed.

AS expected, Denis Lynch has been named as Ireland’s individual show jumper at next month’s Olympics.

IRISH Horse Board director general Nicholas Finnerty concedes that genetic evaluation is not perfect, because results from other countries cannot be included in the Irish system, but says the board is working with European-based organisations to gain access to competition data from abroad.

A SEISMIC shift in the bureaucratic set up of the Show Jumping Association of Ireland is on the cards when it holds its 2001 AGM next Tuesday.