HALF a million dollars in prize money is up for grabs in Saturday night’s FTI Consulting Grand Prix, held under floodlights at the Palm Beach Equestrian Centre in Wellington, Florida, and six Irish riders will be there hoping for a generous slice of the action. Andrew Bourns, Darragh Kenny, Darragh Kerins, Cian O’Connor, Conor Swail and Shane Sweetnam will line out under floodlights this weekend with their top horses, marking the final days of Florida’s [...read on..]
RELAND’S Darragh Kerins, Shane Sweetnam and Darragh Kenny last night (Wednesday) accounted for a total of four places in the top ten of Wellington’s opening class in the final weekend of Florida’s Winter Equestrian Festival. Sligo-born Kerins claimed third place in the 1m45 competition with the Silla Argentino gelding Hot Wheels, just over two seconds off the pace of Brazilian winner Rodrigo Pessoa and the Baloubet du Rouet gelding HH Palouchin. Cork’s Shane Sweetnam slotted [...read on..]
Tredstep Ireland, producer of high quality leggings, boots and accessories, is to sponsor Eventing Ireland’s popular Tredstep CNCJ1* Series for its fourth successive year. Last year saw 43 horse/rider combinations competing for the title of Tredstep CNCJ1* Series Winner, won last year by Emma White, and it is hoped more will be taking up the challenge this year. Junior riders will be able to compete in 10 Tredstep CNCJ1* competitions being held around the [...read on..]
The Under 25 riders can look forward to a new sponsor this year as Eventing Ireland can announce that Equest Pramox will be sponsoring a five leg series – The Equest Pramox CNC1* U25 Series. In addition to the normal prize money, each leg winner can look forward to receiving Equest Pramox products plus an extra €50 in prize money. The overall Series Winner will recieve Equest Pramox product plus prize money €250, and [...read on..]
Eventing Ireland is delighted to announce a new sponsor for the O/CNC2* Class. HitAir will be sponsoring a five leg series, which starts at Tyrella 1 on 7 April. HitAir will be supplying additional prizes at the end of each leg and the overall series winner will receive a HitAir Vest worth €495 plus rug and saddle cloth. The full list of venues is as follows: Date Venues 07 April Tyrella 1 [...read on..]
