Strong sterling and dollar rates, together with a glut of graduate successes have heightened enquiries ahead of November’s flagship Goresbridge Go For Gold sale of event horses. Now heading into its sixth renewal, older graduates are on the verge of major championship appearances, while youngsters from the 2014 sale have already qualified for the major […]

Irish-bred event horses account for 41% of the accepted entries for this year’s Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials. Eight former Badminton winners returning to the UK event this year, namely Australia’s Sam Griffiths, Paul Tapner and Andrew Hoy, New Zealand’s Mark Todd and Jonathan Paget, and Great Britain’s Oliver Townend, Pippa Funnell and William Fox-Pitt. […]

In the build-up to last year’s Rolex Kentucky CCI4* we highlighted the previous Irish bred winners of the US event in the ‘Erin Go Irish’ series produced by the Irish Horse Gateway for our friends in Eventing Nation. ‘Erin Go Irish: Past Rolex Champions’ can be read here for those who missed it. Victory in 2014 once […]

2014 has been a highly successful year for the Irish Sport Horse Peninsula Top Man and his twenty one year Canadian rider David Ziegler. The traditionally-bred Peninsula Top Man (ISH), who initially began his career as an eventer, has clocked up eight international FEI Young Rider victories in Dressage this year. His rider David Ziegler tells […]

The 2014 FEI World Breeding Eventing Championships for Young Horses at Le Lion D’Angers is now under way. Eighteen Irish Sport Horse are representing eight separate nations; Australia, France, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Sweden and the USA. Last year Ireland’s Aoife Clark claimed a silver medal riding the Irish Sport Horse Fernhill Adventure. It is […]

Our UK based young Irish Sport Horse representatives shone yet again during the KBIS British Eventing Young Horse Championships at Osberton International Horse Trials.  Taking joint first in the 4 year-old division was the Irish Sport Horse Ballycanu ridden by Sophie Jenman (GBR). The Tinaranas Inspector sired gelding was bred in County Wexford by Bryan Maguire […]

The Irish Sport Horse was the highest represented studbook in Eventing at the 2014 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games in Normandy, France. A total of twenty-eight Irish-bred event horses participated in the eventing discipline at the French venue this year representing a total of twelve nations. The Team competition saw the Germany take Gold, Great Britian silver and the […]

An incredible 32 Irish-bred horse feature on the definite entry list for the 2014 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games in Normandy, France. These Irish-bred’s will represent 15 different nations in the disciplines of Eventing, Showjumping and Para-Dressage. The Irish Horse Gateway would like to congratulate the Irish breeders and producers of our equine ambassadors at this years […]

Ireland’s Kevin Babington rode the Irish Sport Horse gelding Mark Q to victory in the $100,000 Strongid© C 2X™ Grand Prix at  HITS Saugerties on Sunday. Bred in County Carlow by John & Barbara Walshe, the OBOS Quality 004 sired gelding has also recorded some top international placings already this year. Finishing in 3rd place was the […]

Edwina Tops-Alexander, currently the highest ranked rider of the 2014 Global Champions Tour, has added the eight year-old Irish Sport Horse Ramiro Cruise to her stable. Ramiro Cruise was bred by Patrick Connolly, County Galway, and began his competition career with Olivia and Shane Burns in County Sligo. The Ramiro B sired gelding was then […]