Horse Show: Day 2
Brendan McArdle reports on Day 2 of the Dublin Horse Show and looks ahead to Friday's Aga Khan Trophy
Brendan McArdle reports on Day 2 of the Dublin Horse Show and looks ahead to Friday's Aga Khan Trophy
Chef d'Equipe Robert Splaine is full of confidence ahead of the Aga Khan trophy
Ireland has won its first Aga Kahn trophy since 2004 in the Discover Ireland Dublin Horse Show at the RDS.
Brendan McArdle reports on Ireland's Aga Khan trophy win
An Ireland team that featured two Aga Khan rookies came within one fence of claiming the famous trophy for the first time since 2004 at the Dublin Horse Show on Friday afternoon.
Cork's Shane Sweetnam will be the first Irish rider out on to the turf when the Aga Khan Trophy competition begins shortly before 3pm on Friday at the Discover Ireland Dublin Horse Show at the RDS in Ballsbridge.
Ireland's show jumping boss Robert Splaine has named the five riders who will be on the Aga Khan trophy squad at the Failte Ireland Dublin Horse Show in just over a week's time.
On a tough course that yielded no double clears to any nation, Ireland finished in eighth place in the Aga Khan Trophy competition in Dublin on Friday on a total of 36 faults.
An enthralling Aga Khan Trophy competition at the Fáilte Ireland Dublin Horse Show saw Ireland recover from a shaky first round where they recorded 16 faults to finish in runner-up spot behind Britain.
The German Super League jumping team proved unstoppable in this year's Aga Khan Trophy competition at the Dublin Horse Show finishing on an enviable score of just nine faults.
The Irish senior show jumping team recorded its best 2006 Samsung Super League result, with a third place in the Aga Khan Trophy at the Dublin Horse Show today.
Britain's showjumpers went some way to repairing their dented reputations by winning the Aga Khan Challenge Trophy, Ireland's round of the Samsung Super League, at Ballsbridge, Dublin, today.
The Irish team was tonight drawn second of eight teams to jump in tomorrow's Nations' Cup for the Aga Khan Trophy at the Failte Ireland Dublin Horse Show.
Irish Olympic hopes moved up several notches at Dublin today, as an Irish show jumping team beat the bookies' odds by scooping the Aga Khan trophy in the Samsung Nations Cup.
For the first time in 45 years, the French show jumping team won the Aga Khan Trophy, while Ireland were third at the Kerrygold Horse Show in the RDS.
The RDS (Royal Dublin Society), organisers of the annual Kerrygold Dublin Horse Show, said that seven nations have confirmed in principle their intention to compete for the famous Aga Khan Trophy on August 10, 2001.
Irish trainer Aidan O'Brien is hoping for a hat-trick in Doncaster's Racing Post Trophy this Saturday.