Friday, July 8

The Winter Equestrian Festival in Florida opened last week with a double for Shane Sweetnam, and Wednesday saw the Corkman join Conor Swail and Darragh Kenny to kick off week two with a hat-trick of Irish wins.

SHOWJUMPINGIRELAND (SJI) intends to ratify the Horse Sport Ireland (HSI) anti-doping and medication programme, despite postponing a meeting of its executive that was due to discuss the final draft yesterday.