Horse Sport Ireland (HSI) chairman Pat Wall says not enough is being done to tackle deadly “rotational falls” in eventing, but the world governing body has disputed this.

Shane Sweetnam believes his 11-year-old mare Siri will be out for up to a year after injuring her tendon in the US nations cup in Florida on Friday night.

Show jumping followers can expect a 25% rise in membership and horse registration fees next year as a result of the quadrupling of ShowjumpingIreland’s insurance premium.

The clock was on the side of show jumper Cian O’Connor’s on Friday night, when he landed the Gain/Alltech Autumn Grand Prix League at Cavan International Show.

Back-to-back wins in the Gain/Alltech Autumn League have moved Eddie Moloney alongside Cian O’Connor at the top of the leaderboard with just the final remaining.

Ollie Townend set himself up for a crack at a €50,000 bonus with victory yesterday at the Johnson & Perrott Land Rover International Horse Trials in Ballindenisk, Co Cork, on a horse nicknamed Imperial Disaster.

The show jumping community at Millstreet International Horse Show was yesterday basking in the sun and Cian O’Connor’s Olympic bronze medal-winning performance.

It wouldn’t come as a big surprise to find that Ireland show jumping manager Robert Splaine is putting the controversy over Denis Lynch behind him, and he would be forgiven for, briefly, taking his focus off the Olympics today, as he aims to engineer a get-out-of-jail performance in Hickstead.

Show jumper Shane Sweetnam just missed out on a €50,000 bonus when winning the puissance class at the nations cup show in Rome on Saturday.

Eddie Moloney lines out in the opening contest of the TRM/SJI Premier Series in Louth this weekend, confident he can take back-to-back titles.

THE World Cup’s Western European League begins this weekend in Oslo, and Denis Lynch is taking a different approach to last year.

NO surprise that Ireland show jumping manager Robert Splaine regrets the loss of K Club Lady and Temple Road, who have both been sold to Ukranian gas magnate Alexander Onishchenko.

LAST weekend’s Monte Carlo Global Champions Tour (GCT) contest caused difficulties across the board and Billy Twomey feels it would be unfair to draw conclusions from the performance of any horse, including his own Tinka’s Serenade.

AN Italian job is not beyond the bounds of possibility in the second leg of the FEI Nations Cup League next week, according to Ireland show jumping manager Robert Splaine, who has nominated the same quartet that won last weekend’s French Nations Cup in his Rome squad.

YOUNG rider Gerard Clarke continued his barnstorming run in the HSI Chippison Spring Tour in Barnadown, Co Wexford.

SHOW JUMPER Sarah-Kate Quinlivan went one better at Newcastle West in Limerick yesterday, when winning the Spring Mount Grand Prix, having finished runner-up last year.

IRISH HORSE BOARD Chairman Michael Osborne hopes the umbrella body for the sport horse industry will be set up by next year.

THE Moloney family from Warrington, Kilkenny, were in flying form on the opening day at Millstreet Horse Show yesterday where brothers Richie and Eddie Moloney finished first and third in the 1.30 speed event and their father Tom’s youngster On A Frolic topped the 1.10m class with Linda Ekberg on board.

CIAN O’CONNOR’S run of form at the Nations Cup show in Rome continued yesterday when he claimed his fourth victory.

A GAA division in Cork has warned that it will have to reduce its fixture programme this year as a result of “unacceptable” verbal and physical abuse of referees.

CONOR SWAIL’S victory in the Dairygold Grand Prix at Millstreet over third-placed Edward Doyle last Sunday has ensured a mouth-watering finish to the SJAI indoor league at Cavan International Show this weekend.

“HE felt as good as ever,” were the words of Conor Swail yesterday after he won the Dairygold Grand Prix at Millstreet on Windgates King Koal, a horse lucky to be alive.

IRELAND’S Billy Twomey and Cian O’Connor put their rivals in the shade at a sunbaked Dublin Horse Show as they claimed victory in the two main classes.