IRELAND show jumping manager Robert Splaine has blended two debutants with three riders boasting vast experience in his nations cup squad for next week’s Dublin Horse Show.

WITH €475,000 on offer in tomorrow night’s Global Champions Tour opener in Doha, riders will not be lacking in incentive.

THE effects of the dispute between Jessica Kürten and the owner of her top horses Lady Georgina Forbes were made visible yesterday, with the latest Rolex World Rankings showing the rider falling to 16th.

KILDARE resident Christy Murphy is the new chairman of Showjumping Ireland (SJI) after defeating Connacht man Liam Murphy in a vote at the first meeting of the SJI’s national executive on Tuesday night.

JESSICA KUERTEN greatly boosted her chances of making the World Cup final yesterday when fending off a strong effort from the home contingent to win the qualifier at Mechelen, Belgium.

SHOWJUMPINGIRELAND (SJI) chairman Ronan Corrigan says the organisation is conducting a review of its working relationship with Horse Sport Ireland (HSI).

THE Showjumping Ireland (SJI) national executive is to meet on October 6, when they will discuss the directive given by members at Tuesday’s AGM that fines and sanctions be scrapped for members and officials who participated at last month’s “independent” Millstreet Show.

SHOWJUMPING IRELAND chairman Ronan Corrigan last night reiterated the body’s insurance covered “all sporting activities”, but said “the organisers of any event have a duty to ensure the venue is safe and have made every effort to ensure everybody’s safety”.

SHOWJUMPINGIRELAND (SJI) has sent forward for legal examination its decision on the level of sanction to be imposed on those members and officials who participated in last month’s “independent” Millstreet All-Ireland Championships in Cork.

AUTUMN show jumping leagues could be under threat amid doubts over the standard of insurance cover provided by ShowjumpingIreland (SJI), Ballyrafter proprietor Anne Waistell claimed yesterday.

SHOWJUMPINGIRELAND (SJI) is to impose stiff sanctions on some of its members and officials, as it completes a list of those people it deems breached its rules at last week’s “independent” Millstreet Show All-Ireland Championships.

NUMBERS were better than expected yesterday at the opening of the Millstreet Horse Show All-Ireland Championships, as many of the show jumping fraternity defied the threat of sanction by the sport’s national governing body to attend the Cork event.

THE chairman of ShowjumpingIreland (SJI) Ronan Corrigan has confirmed the organisation was undertaking a review of its anti-doping policy.

THE chairman of Showjumping Ireland Ronan Corrigan yesterday said registrations were on par with last year, bucking the recession and a fee increase.

JESSICA KÜRTEN qualified for the World Cup final last Sunday and then declared her surprise at the achievement.

RARE artefacts being sold by the Titanic’s last remaining survivor could be bound for Belfast.

THE board of Horse Sport Ireland (HSI) this week agreed to put a draft proposal of its strategic plan forward for public consultation.

THE chairman of Horse Sport Ireland, Joe Walsh, yesterday said he was determined to “clean up” equestrian sport in the wake of Lantinus, the horse ridden by Denis Lynch, testing positive for the banned substance, capsaicin, at the Olympics.

DENIS LYNCH will saddle up his Qatar Global Champions Tour winner (GCT) Lantinus for the Samsung Nations Cup Super League opener in La Baule, France on May 8-11.

TRAINING in the sport horse sector is to be boosted by an injection of €500,000.

IT may have taken almost a year, but the Show Jumping Association of Ireland (SJAI) has got its man.