Robert Splaine confident of Cup success at Nations Cup

Hopes are high that Ireland’s show jumpers will today repeat last year’s Nations Cup win at Dublin Horse Show and, while manager Robert Splaine was upbeat yesterday, he was saying little that might prove a hostage to fortune.

The Corkman felt the odds were in his team’s favour, yet he knows well the vagaries of the sport curtail any tendency to be overly-optimistic.

“I think if the team performs to the best of its ability, we are in with a good chance of winning, but everything has to come right on the day. The performances this week in the run-up to tomorrow’s competition have been satisfactory.