Tipperary’s Shane Breen completed a successful few days at five-star Royal Windsor Horse Show in the UK, by winning the Manama Rose Show Stakes.

Ireland's show jumpers have recorded two major victories overnight at Lisbon in Portugal and at British Colombia in Canada.

Derry's Daniel Coyle scored his biggest ever career win in the early hours with a €312k cheque at the Florida five-star Grand Prix event.

The Irish Show Jumping team have scored their third podium finish of the season, after taking runner-up spot in the Wellington Nations Cup in Florida, USA in the early hours of this morning.

Ireland has two show jumping teams in action this weekend for the first of this year’s nations cup fixtures. Michael Blake takes charge of affairs for the five-star meeting in Ocala, Florida, while Taylor Vard will be overseeing matters at Abu Dhabi’s five-star contest in the UAE.

Just in time for Christmas, the Belgian Competition Authority lobbed an unwelcome ‘present’ at both equestrian sport’s world governing body, the FEI, and the privately run Global Champions Tour/Global Champions League (GCT/GCL).

The Manhattan skyline provides the backdrop to this week’s showpiece event on the North American circuit as the fourth staging of the the Rolex Central Park Horse Show gets underway at the Wollman Rink today.

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.

Ireland’s new show jumping team manager Rodrigo Pessoa maintains that Irish teams have been underperforming and says that his goal is to transfer good individual performances to better team effect.

The Irish show jumping team produced a stunning performance to win a rain-soaked Swiss Nations Cup in St Gallen today.

Show jumper Billy Twomey pocketed €30,000 yesterday when he won the Hamburg Derby in Germany on Diaghilev.

Wexford’s Bertram Allen and the grey mare Molly Malone V produced a stunning performance at the five-star show in Hamburg, Germany today, winning the five-star 1m55 Mercedes-Benz Championat against a field of the world’s top riders.

It’s been 15 years since an Irish team won the nations cup at Rotterdam and it’s guaranteed to be 16, as Ireland will not be represented today.

Ireland show jumping manager Robert Splaine celebrated his birthday on Wednesday and, no doubt, he will be hoping his team present him with a suitable gift in today’s Furusiyya Series nations cup in St Gallen, Switzerland.

A bronze medal at the World Cup final was plenty reason for nineteen-year-old show jumper Bertram Allen to declare himself "happy" last night.

Another weekend, another $1m show jumping prizepot in the US and Kevin Babington is not without confidence.