THOLM KEANE has been getting a nice tune out of tenor Ronan Tynan’s horses at this week’s Millstreet Horse Show, but yesterday he was right on song when taking the first of the show’s grands prix with Redmills Warrenstown You 2.

IRISH Horse Board director general Nicholas Finnerty concedes that genetic evaluation is not perfect, because results from other countries cannot be included in the Irish system, but says the board is working with European-based organisations to gain access to competition data from abroad.

Irish Horse Board chairman Joe Walsh and director general Nicholas Finnerty have promised that a comprehensive study into the Irish sport horse industry will not be allowed gather dust on a shelf.

THE chairwoman of the Show Jumping Association of Ireland (SJAI), Patricia Furlong, yesterday welcomed the latest moves at the formation of an umbrella body for equestrianism.