WITH the battle for individual places at the Olympics intensifying, Billy Twomey achieved an important fourth place in the lucrative grand prix at Basel, Switzerland, yesterday.

THERE was good and bad news for Irish show jumpers in the latest Rolex World Rankings, with Denis Lynch moving up and Billy Twomey heading the opposite direction.

JESSICA KÜRTEN has been named on the Irish squad for next Friday’s Swiss Nations Cup.

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.

JESSICA KÜRTEN has handed over the five horses owned by Georgina Forbes, with speculation mounting that Frenchman Roger-Yves Bost will be the new rider.

A SPOKESPERSON for Jessica Kürten and her husband Eckard yesterday said the couple categorically rejected that there are doubts concerning the welfare of Georgina Forbes’s horses.

SHOW jumper Jessica Kürten has reached a settlement in her dispute with horse owner Georgina Forbes.

SHOW jumper Jessica Kürten is hoping to find “common ground” with horse owner Lady Georgina Forbes which will result in an end to their dispute.

JESSICA KÜRTEN qualified for the World Cup final last Sunday and then declared her surprise at the achievement.

TATTERSALLS IRELAND managing director George Mernagh was delighted and relieved yesterday to say the Meath venue’s international horse trials will go-ahead this year, but conceded that failure to save it would have dealt a huge blow to Ireland’s equestrian reputation.

One of Ireland's best hopes for a medal in the upcoming Olympics has confirmed that she will not be taking part.

Cork's Billy Twomey took a third place this afternoon in the third round of the British Open Show Jumping Championship at the four-star show in Birmingham, England.

IRELAND'S Jessica Kurten made up for her disappointment at finishing