Consideration is been given to staging show jumping at a number of greyhound stadia next year.

With around 3,000 entries for this weekend’s Owners Pony and Young Riders Charity Show, in Millstreet, Co Cork, organisers expect the total funding raised for good causes to top €280,000.

Irish show jumpers drove to victory across Europe at the weekend, with Jessica Kurten in the driving seat when claiming a €40,000 Subaru car in the grand prix in Odense, Copenhagen.

Shane Breen was taking a lead from his horse’s name yesterday as he prepared for the first Chinese leg of the Global Champions Tour.

Living The Dream lived up to its name yesterday for Mayo show jumper Alex Duffy, the pairing finishing third in a competitive grand prix in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

The rising star of Irish show jumping, Bertram Allen, shone brightly again yesterday when taking the individual silver medal at the Junior European Show Jumping Championships in Vejer de la Frontera, Spain.

Daniel Coyle continued his amazing run in the HSI/Blue Grass Spring Tour, claiming his fourth victory in the sixth leg at Portmore Equestrian Centre, Co Armagh, yesterday.

Show jumper Denis Lynch failed to make it to the second round of yesterday’s Rolex FEI World Cup qualifier in Zurich, Switzerland, posting nine faults with All Star.

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.

Five months after a trade delegation to China led by Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney heralded the opening of the country as a possible market for Irish horses, the major obstacles of quarantine and a direct flight have yet to be resolved.

Olympic bronze medallist Cian O’Connor ensured himself a fitting send-off from the Discover Dublin Horse Show yesterday when third in the €200,000 Longines Grand Prix.

Ireland’s eventing pony riders lifted double gold and a bronze medal at the European Championships in Fontainebleau, France, yesterday to crown a magnificent weekend for Irish equestrian sport.

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.

Paul Beecher yesterday claimed the famous Hickstead Derby for only the 13th time for Ireland in its 52-year history.

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

Horse Sport Ireland (HSI) is awaiting confirmation that it can field a five-strong eventing squad at the Olympics.

Camilla Speirs holds second place after dressage in the CIC short-format three-star at the Tattersalls International Horse Trials in Co Meath.

Michael Ryan was his usual assured self yesterday after riding Dromgurrihy Blue to equal 10th in the dressage phase of the Irish Field CCI three-star class at Tattersalls International Horse Trials.

Ireland finished last in yesterday’s Italian Nations Cup in Rome yesterday, having been severely hampered by the elimination of Niall Talbot and Nicos de la Cense in the opening round.

Tipperary's Denis Lynch took the honours in this afternoon's Derby at the five-star show in La Baule, France, riding Flaminia Straumann's 13 year-old gelding Night Train.

Ireland show jumping manager Robert Splaine’s prediction that yesterday’s French Nations Cup would be a difficult test proved accurate, as Ireland finished joint fifth of the eight teams.

The FEI Nations Cup Series begins today in La Baule, France, and, important as it is, it will play second fiddle to the Olympics.

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.

Showjumping star Jessica Kurten today scooped the Sportswoman of the Month award for January.

MORE than anything, show jumper Jessica Kürten saw her first major grand prix win in over a year last Sunday as one of portent.

Show jumper Billy Twomey’s fourth place in the World Cup qualifier at Leipzig, Germany, has propelled him to the top of the Olympic rankings, according to Horse Sport Ireland, while Jessica Kürten posted her first major grand prix win in over a year in Amsterdam.

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.

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.

Denis Lynch and Jessica Kurten picked up more than €11,000 between them when they finished first and second in this evening's two-phase competition at the five-star World Cup in Mechelen, Belgium.

SHOWJUMPINGIRELAND (SJI) intends to ratify the Horse Sport Ireland (HSI) anti-doping and medication programme, despite postponing a meeting of its executive that was due to discuss the final draft yesterday.

SHOW JUMPER Denis Lynch is practically assured of a place in the Rolex World Cup final after finishing ninth in Geneva, Switzerland, yesterday.

IT IS almost certain that Sports Minister Leo Varadkar will move to ensure a fixed term will apply to the position of Horse Sport Ireland (HSI) chairman after it was brought to his attention that none exists.

SUCCESS eluded the three Irish riders in Saturday’s Global Champions Tour final in Abu Dhabi, with Billy Twomey coming out best in 13th.

IT took over two months, but Horse Sport Ireland (HSI) yesterday identified the Sia Group as the consultancy that will undertake a review of Ireland’s poor performance at the European Show Jumping Championships in Madrid.

LAUREN Hough knew there was room for improvement on her poor performance in Friday’s Nations Cup at the Discover Ireland Horse Show and proved it emphatically yesterday by winning the €200,000 Longines Grand Prix on a day when America dominated.

Jessica Kurten picked up Ireland's first win at this week's four-star show at De Steeg in the Netherlands when snatching victory by the narrowest of margins in tonight's big jump-off class.

In a 36-strong starting field that boasted some of the world's top riders, Ireland claimed two top ten spots in this afternoon's Longines Grand Prix at St. Gallen in Switzerland.

IRELAND’S good start to the FEI Nations Cup League ended yesterday, when the team finished seventh in St Gallen, Switzerland.

JAYNE DOHERTY’S dressage performance yesterday saw her the Irish standard bearer in the CCI three-star class at Tattersalls Horse Trials.

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

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.