McMahon on Aga Khan
Clem McMahon, Irish Aga Khan team member, looks ahead to the competition
Clem McMahon, Irish Aga Khan team member, looks ahead to the competition
Ireland has won its first Aga Kahn trophy since 2004 in the Discover Ireland Dublin Horse Show at the RDS.
Ireland has won its first ever World Breeding Championship, with Clem McMahon claiming victory at Lanaken, Belgium in the Six Year-Old Final on the Irish-bred chestnut stallion NLS Coole Al Clover.
Clem McMahon was not far from his birthplace when he won the fifth leg of the HSI Irish Sport Horse Studbook Showjumping Series 2009 at Omagh show on Saturday, claiming the 6/7 Year-Old Final with Susan Stewart's bay mare Belle Fire.
Though the battle royal between Premier Series league leader Clem McMahon and his closest rival Paul O'Shea did not materialise at the series final in Millstreet, it was McMahon who walked away with the trophy.
Clones-born Clem McMahon snatched the Omagh Grand Prix trophy today by less than half a second, and levered himself up to sixth place in the Boswell Equestrian Grand Prix League.
Clem McMahon returned to the winners enclosure in the IJM TimberFrame National Grand Prix League event held in Wexford on Sunday with a textbook double clear to take first place and catapult him to the top spot in the leaderboard.
A sterling effort by Clem McMahon at the Belfast International Horse Show this afternoon failed to close the considerable gap with IJM TimberFrame League leader Olive Clarke, but provided a masterly display of horsemanship in a three-horse jump-off.
Clem McMahon was back in the winner's enclosure yesterday at Cavan, when he snatched one of the last remaining Grands Prix of the IJM TimberFrame Outdoor League.
Clem McMahon recorded his second win of the Royal International at Hickstead as he steered 'Gelvin Clover' to win the Osbourne Reffrigerators Stakes.