SISTERS from Woodstown, Co Waterford, Rosemary and Claire Connors had a clean sweep in the ridden hunter classes at the 93rd Dungarvan Show.

THE prestigious breeders’ championship at the Fáilte Ireland Dublin Horse Show was won by a nine-year-old bay mare owned by Margaret Jeffares, Ballykelly House, Drinagh, Co Wexford.

A BID to bring back the quintessential Irish sport horse — a draught horse crossed with thoroughbreds — has sparked debate among breeders.

EVENTING is to be retained as an Olympic discipline, based on the reduced format proposed