World champion Irish Sport Horse Arraghbeg Clover is to be auctioned in December by Holger Hetzel, the German having bought her from rider Greg Broderick and Declan Orpen.

Discussions are underway that could see Germany allowed to compete in the final of the Furusiyya Nations Cup final, despite the country’s decision to pull out of the Swiss leg last Friday.

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

SHOW jumper Billy Twomey danced to his first Global Champions Tour win at the weekend in Valencia, Spain, on the appropriately named Je t’Aime Flamenco.

SHOW JUMPER Jessica Kurten pocketed the biggest cheque of her career on Saturday when earning €300,000 as winner of the Global Champions Tour final in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Irish rider Jessica Kurten tonight won €300,000 in the Sao Paulo Grand Prix in Brazil, riding Lady Georgina Fobes's mare 'Castle Forbes Libertina'. Kurten was one of 18 riders who qualified for the Grand Prix, and won a four-horse jump-off.

Jessica Kurten failed to break the 30-year jinx that has denied Irish riders a World Cup win, when finishing equal fourth after today's final competition at Gothenburg, Sweden, but an American-owned Irish-bred horse did claim the runner-up spot.

A victory in this evening's (Saturday) Gothenburg Trophy gave Ireland's Jessica Kurten her second major win in 24 hours at the Swedish World Cup show.

Jessica Kurten upped her status as favourite to capture the 2008 World Cup in Gothenburg, Sweden, when she streaked home to win tonight's second competition in the weekend series.

GERMAN-BASED Tipperary show jumper Denis Lynch continues to strengthen his team, acquiring the ride on two new horses.

SHOW jumper Jessica Kurten put the disappointment of last weekend’s Paris grand prix behind her on Saturday to take the €300,000 Rolex Top 10 in Geneva, Switzerland, with her ‘wonder horse’ Castle Forbes Libertina.

Ireland's Jessica Kurten has moved up to third place in the Rolex World Jumping Riders rankings in the new monthly table published by the FEI (Federation Equestre Internationale) today.

Ireland's Jessica Kurten racked up her second place of the day at Gothenburg, Sweden, tonight when she finished in the Masters qualifier just a fraction of a second behind German winner Ludger Beerbaum in a 15-horse jump-off.

THE formal ratification of Robert Splaine as chef d’equipe to the senior show jumping team may not take place until January, as the Equestrian Federation of Ireland (EFI) has not scheduled an executive meeting until the New Year.

JESSICA KÜRTEN is to test the goodwill of the Irish show jumping selectors with a request for slots in forthcoming World Cup qualifiers.

SUNDAY'S ruling in the Cian O'Connor case by the Judicial Committee of the International Equestrian Federation (FEI) will probably come as something of a relief to sports administrators tasked with the duty of maintaining the fight against doping.

THE International Equestrian Federation (FEI) confirmed yesterday that a third Irish equine tested positive for a banned substance last year.

Ireland's show jumpers put in an impressive display in last night's Olympic team final, as Jessica Kuerten's inspired clear round saw them rise two places to seventh under the floodlights of the Markopoulo centre.

Kevin Babington celebrated his 36th birthday in style at the Markopoulo centre, as he guided his mount Carling King to an individual fourth and qualified Ireland as ninth of 10 nations for tonight’s Show Jumping team final.

THE new Show Jumping Association of Ireland (SJAI) executive are to get an exclusive briefing on plans for the modernisation of the Equestrian Federation of Ireland (EFI).

CIAN O'CONNOR produced a performance of courage at Hickstead yesterday as he secured the competition's sole double-clear to take Ireland within a whisker of landing a hat trick in the Samsung Nations Cup.