Barbury test for Irish Olympic hopefuls

Ireland eventing high performance manager Ginny Elliot yesterday stressed the importance of Barbury Horse Trials as she makes her final deliberations regarding her Olympic selection.

Barbury test for Irish Olympic hopefuls

The Wiltshire event takes place on June 28 to July 1 and Elliot has selected the following as her shortlist for the Games: Aoife Clark (Master Crusoe), Capt Geoff Curran (Shanaclough Crecora and The Jump Jet), Jayne Doherty (Ravenstar), Sarah Ennis (Sugar Brown Babe), Mark Kyle (Coolio), Joseph Murphy (Electric Cruise), Elizabeth Power (September Bliss), Michael Ryan (Ballylynch Adventure), Camilla Speirs (Portersize Just a Jiff) and Sam Watson (Horseware Bushman).

Having won at Ballindenisk in February, Speirs claimed her second international win with Portersize Just A Jiff on home soil in Tattersalls last weekend, with Clark, Captain Curran and Kyle filling second to fourth, respectively. In the long-format competition, Ennis also put herself in the frame when second to William Fox-Pitt.

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