Irish show jumping legend Billy Ringrose dies

Queen Elizabeth II presents the Romulus & Remus trophy to Captain Billy Ringrose on winning the Grand Prix at the Piazza di Siena, Rome, with Loch an Easpaig. Ringrose also came second on his back-up horse, Cloyne. Photo from ‘Billy Ringrose – A memoir of my Father’.

One of Ireland’s most successful show jumping riders of the 50s and 60s, and Chef d’Équipe of the famous Aga Khan team the year they completed three-in-a-row in 1979, Col Billy Ringrose has died in Dublin, aged 89.