Shane Sweetnam got back to winning ways in stunning fashion at the Winter Equestrian Festival in Florida, scoring a hat-trick, but just losing out in Saturday’s $82,000 grand prix.

Ireland achieved a season’s best result in FEI Top League yesterday, when fourth in the Dutch Nations Cup in Rotterdam.

THE market for Irish horses in China is full of potential, Horse Sport Ireland chief executive Damian McDonald said yesterday, but he acknowledged a number of obstacles needed to be overcome.

SHOW jumper Denis Lynch has risen to second in the Rolex World Cup league table following his fifth place with Abbervail van het Dingeshof in Mechelen, Belgium, yesterday.

Denis Lynch moved up to second position in the Rolex FEI World Cup rankings this evening after a fifth place finish in the World Cup competition at Mechelen, Belgium with Thomas Straumann's 11-year-old bay gelding Abbervail van Het Dingeshof.

IRELAND’S eventers will be hoping a good performance in today’s cross-country will push them up the leaderboard at the European Championships in Luhmühlen, Germany, having finished a poor eighth of 10 countries after the dressage phase.

SHOW jumper Billy Twomey looked to be motoring in the €150,000 grand prix at the Audi Masters in Brussels, Belgium, yesterday until an unexpected two refusals with Je t’Aime Flamenco at the double put the brakes on his effort.

Ireland's Denis Lynch claimed a €23,000 victory in this afternoon's German Grand Prix at Wiesbaden, narrowly beating Germany's World No. 2 Marcus Ehning to the prize.

BILLY TWOMEY proved his dependability yesterday when winning the nations cup for Ireland at the five-star show in Lummen, Belgium.

US-BASED show jumpers Shane Sweetnam and Kevin Babington are among a five-man squad named yesterday for next week’s Meydan Nations Cup Series opener in La Baule, France.