The strategic plan envisaged by the troika of Horse Sport Ireland, Teagasc and the RDS is fundamentally all about ensuring the horse sector can deliver on its potential.

HORSES have galloped across the Fell family farm in Ballindenisk, Co Cork, for generations.

Briton Ollie Townend doubled his chances of pocketing a €50,000 bonus next September when victorious with the Irish-bred Douglas at Ballindenisk International Horse Trials in Cork yesterday.

Ballindenisk International Horse Trials in Co Cork has for a number of years held a strong attraction for British royal Zara Phillips.

British royal Zara Phillips is to be presented with a stunning drawing of herself and her horse Lord Lauries at Ballindenisk Horse Trials, Co Cork, this weekend.

The flags of five countries will fly at Ballindenisk Horse Trials next week, as the Cork venue continues to build on its stature.

Ballindenisk will host the European Championships in 2019, if the Fell family ambitions are realised.

Next month’s Johnson & Perrott Land Rover International Horse Trials in Ballindenisk is gearing up to be one of the best as the Cork venue again attracts the cream of international and national riders.

Zara Phillips, the grand-daughter of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, will bid for successive victories when she returns next month for the Johnson & Perrott Land Rover International Horse Trials in Ballindenisk, Cork.

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

Ballindenisk Horse Trials is boosting its attractiveness with the offer of a €50,000 bonus.

Jayne Doherty would be the first to acknowledge she does not do “quietly confident”.

NEXT MONTH’S Ballindenisk Horse Trials has attracted a stellar line-up, according to the organisers.

CONTRASTING fortunes defined the opening day for Ireland’s World Cup challengers, with Billy Twomey finishing 16th in the first of three finals and Denis Lynch suffering elimination.

PLANNING for the nations cup season moves into focus next Tuesday, when riders gather with management at Dublin airport to plan the season ahead.

MICHAEL RYAN was yesterday named among the six eventing riders to carry Irish hopes in the Alltech World Equestrian Games (WEG), which begin this month in Kentucky and he took the opportunity to highlight the importance of the Cork venue, Ballindenisk, to the sport in Ireland.

THE Fell family are aiming to stage the Ballindenisk Eventing World Cup qualifier again next year, despite the sport’s national governing body yesterday backing an application by Tattersall’s, Co Meath.

THE Irish Horse Board Land Rover World Cup Qualifier at Ballindenisk this weekend is the main course in a feast of equestrian sport.