Top award for Eamonn Murphy

THE Irish Sport Horse Studbook Awards took place in Portlaoise this week and receiving the award for the Highest Placed Irish Sport Horse at the prestigious World Breeding Jumping Championships for Young Horses at Lanaken, Belgium, was gold medal winner Columbcille Gipsy’s Kilkenny breeder Eamonn Murphy.

Interim chairman of Horse Sport Ireland Jim Beecher and CEO Ronan Murphy presented the awards.

Next week’s issue will feature the ISH Studbook award photos and report.

RC grants

FIVE riding clubs were allocated a total of €22,500 from the 2017 Sports Capital programme recently announced by the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport. It’s the biggest allocation of funding received in one year.

Recipients include Arderin RC €2,500; Corrib RC Galway €5,000; Leitrim RC €5,000; Kilotteran RC Waterford €3,000; and Waterford RC €7,000.

Director General of the Association of Irish Riding Clubs, David Abbott, said: “This year’s Sports Capital Programme allocation is the biggest we’ve ever had with five clubs haring €22,500 between them for various sports equipment.”

Dujardin set for

Liverpool Show

BRITISH Olympic dressage rider Charlotte Dujardin will compete at Liverpool International Horse Show with her mount En Vogue. Dujardin wil compete with the eight-year-old Jazz gelding on Friday, December 29th in the Echo Arena in the new Equitop Myoplast Inter 1 Freestyle (Dressage to Music) class.

She joins her trainer and mentor Carl Hester, who rides Hawtins Delicato.

President of Liverpool International Show, Nina Barbour said: “It is fantastic news that Charlotte is joining Carl to compete at the show.”

Tickets at www.liverpoolhorseshow.com