SHOWJUMPINGIRELAND (SJI) chairman Christy Murphy has visited Ennis to inspect the showgrounds following the decision of the organisation’s executive to cancel the national championships, which were scheduled to take place at the Clare venue at the end of August.

Sixteen-year-old Joseph O'Brien today won a bronze individual eventing medal at the European Pony Championships in Moorsele, Belgium.

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 got her World Cup challenge off to a good start last night when third in the opening competition in Gothenburg, Sweden.

TOP eventer Sue Shortt says compatriot Steven Smith has the credentials to win the World Cup qualifier at this weekend’s Irish Horse Board Ballindenisk International Horse Trials.

EVENT rider Michael Ryan has no doubt it is his fiancée Patricia Donegan who will carry the flag for the pair in next week’s World Cup qualifier at the Irish Horse Board Ballindenisk International Horse Trials in Cork.

A 22-YEAR-OLD Wexford student could be set to alter the future of horseriding with his design of a revolutionary reduced weight saddle.

THE long and the Shortt of sit, a synopsis of an event rider’s career.

THE modest aspirations of Ireland’s show jumpers were realised to some extent yesterday when they placed equal fifth in the Samsung Super League Nations Cup in St Gallen, Switzerland.

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

EVENTING is a sport of opposites. It combines the finesse and cadence of dressage, the fervour and stamina of the cross-country gallop and the accuracy of show jumping.

TOMMY WADE yesterday said he had no intention of resigning as Chef d’Equipe to the Irish show jumping team, despite a vote of no confidence in him and the international selectors committee at the Show Jumping Association of Ireland AGM on Tuesday.

WITH Jonty Evans (Marsden Muscat) playing the leading role, Ireland’s event riders staged a stunning recovery to win the three-star class in Boekelo, the Netherlands, at the weekend.

IRELAND’S depleted eventing team achieved their goal of qualifying for next year’s Olympics when finishing fourth yesterday at the conclusion of the Failte Ireland/IFG European Championships.