Nations cups dominated last week’s show jumping headlines, but the international limelight over the next few days switches to the relatively new, mixed-nationality format that is the Global Champions League (GCL), writes Mike Dunne.

The menu would think nothing saddling up Neidín and travelling to Cavan and back for a taste of Silke Cropp’s Corleggy Cheese alone but throw in the Taste of Cavan 2015 food festival (Aug 7-8) and he’d be near tempted to shoulder the bould Neidín himself.

Show jumper Liam O’Meara maintained his lead in the HSI/Connolly’s Red Mills Spring Tour yesterday, when second at Cavan Equestrian Centre.

ShowjumpingIreland (SJI) chairman Tony Hurley has confirmed Allianz Insurance will again support the Make-A-Wish Challenge in 2015, following its success in Cavan last weekend.

Horse trainer and producer Deirdre Bourns, who was left tetraplegic after a horse knocked her down and trampled on her at a showjumping event, has brought a High Court action seeking more than €900,000 in damages.

Robert Splaine is hoping the team that placed second in last year’s US nations cup will get his new term as manager off to a good start today when they line out in Florida.

Show jumper Andrew Bourns led a clean sweep for Ireland in Sunday’s $50,000 Hermès Derby at the FTI Winter Equestrian Festival in Florida.

Cian O’Connor is already giving indication of another successful partnership, notching up a double with his latest acquisition Walk Tall II on week seven of the FTI Winter Equestrian Festival in Florida.

Horse Sport Ireland last night revealed that a horse ridden by Antrim show jumper Harry Marshall tested positive for a controlled medication last May.

THE staging of the Tattersalls World Cup event remained on a knife edge last night as efforts continued to find the necessary finance.

IT should come as no surprise that plans for Ireland’s nations cup participation are to be revised following ShowjumpingIreland’s re-negotiation last week of its financial input.

THE Show Jumping Association of Ireland (SJAI) yesterday vowed to follow through on its promise to sanction members and judges who participated in last Sunday’s unaffiliated show at Cavan Equestrian Centre.

THE Equestrian Federation of Ireland (EFI) is to submit the nominations of its affiliates for the interim board of Horse Sport Ireland to Arts Sports and Tourism Minister John O’Donoghue on Monday.

CONOR SWAIL won the Boswell Grand Prix League on a fitting note yesterday when victorious in the penultimate round at Iverk Show, Piltown, Co Kilkenny.

A RDS Silver Medal will be presented for the Holstein Friesian Champion of the Spring Dairy Fair in Cavan Equestrian Centre next Saturday — the first qualifier for the 2006 RDS/Irish Holstein Friesian Association Champion of Champions.

A SEISMIC shift in the bureaucratic set up of the Show Jumping Association of Ireland is on the cards when it holds its 2001 AGM next Tuesday.