THE market for Irish horses in China is full of potential, Horse Sport Ireland chief executive Damian McDonald said yesterday, but he acknowledged a number of obstacles needed to be overcome.

SENIOR rider Michael Ryan says Eventing Ireland must have good cause if it chooses to redirect the money it annually allocates for high performance.

Ireland's pony riders took a bronze medal in the European Team Championships at Freudenberg in Germany today finishing on a total of 22 penalties.

BRITISH show jumping legend Malcolm Pyrah is one of five candidates in the frame to become the next Irish show jumping team manager.

JESSICA KÜRTEN emerged this week as the number two ranked show jumper in the world. No mean feat, it came as little surprise following her string of wins against the sport’s elite, including victory in the Dubai Grand Prix, the world’s richest show jumping contest.

The president of the Equestrian Federation of Ireland has announced plans to order a review of the selection process for the Irish showjumping team.

Showjumper Cian O'Connor has rejected allegations that he interfered in the selection process for the Irish team in the Nations Cup event at the Dublin Horse Show.

John Tynan

John Tynan

TURMOIL and recrimination surfaced within the Irish show jumping camp again yesterday, with Harry Marshall the latest rider to pull out of the senior nations cup squad.

SHOW JUMPER Jessica Kürten will not line out alongside Cian O’Connor and the rest of the Irish team in next week’s Dublin Horse Show.

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.

CONOR SWAIL’S victory in the Dairygold Grand Prix at Millstreet over third-placed Edward Doyle last Sunday has ensured a mouth-watering finish to the SJAI indoor league at Cavan International Show this weekend.

“HE felt as good as ever,” were the words of Conor Swail yesterday after he won the Dairygold Grand Prix at Millstreet on Windgates King Koal, a horse lucky to be alive.

NICKY ENGLISH’S successor as manager of the Tipperary senior hurling team will not be appointed for several weeks.

Glowing tributes were paid to former Tipperary senior hurling boss Nicky English at the monthly meeting of the County GAA Board after it was announced by Chairman Con Hogan that he was standing down.