This past Friday, 19th July, marked one week from the opening of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games. Including those listed as ‘Reserve’, a total of 94 individual horses are named on the ‘Definite Entries’ list for jumping. Having studied the pedigrees of all listed horses, here are my breeding insights.
It's all about the mare, but which mare?
'Connect, Select and Grow' - Sport Horse Breeder Event
Irish-bred 5* Nations Cup horses of 2023
Including the Nations Cup final in Barcelona, sixteen CSIO5* Nations Cup events took place last year. Impressively, an Irish-bred horse contested ten of these team competitions. Ten individual Irish-bred horses lined out for 5* team duty throughout the 2023 season, representing four different countries.
28 Irish-bred horses contest Eventing World Breeding Championship for Young Horses
European Championship Breeding Insights
From LGCT Winners To LGCT Sires
Riders Turned Breeders At Miami Beach
Free Hippomundo webinar
This Thursday, 14th April, I will be hosting a Hippomundo webinar with founder, Koen Terryn, and Hippomundo COO, Eric Goosens. The webinar is free for all to attend.
A fitting farewell to Diamant de Semilly at Doha LGCT
New Hippomundo Discount Code
As you know, I strongly believe that Hippomundo is an exceptional service for those involved in the sport horse sector - especially us breeders. There are vast quantities of verified pedigree & performance data, rankings and tools available at the click of a button. The breeder, owner & rider contact pages make you globally accessible.
The leading Irish breeders of 2021
Who have been Ireland’s highest ranked breeders in 2021, across the three Olympic disciplines of Showjumping, Eventing and Dressage? Let’s delve into the Hippomundo Breeder Rankings and find out.
Well done to each of these Irish breeders on their respective ranking and breeding successes. Your home-bred horses have been fantastic ambassadors for Ireland’s sport horse sector throughout the 2021 season.
30 Irish-bred horses contest Eventing World Breeding Championship for Young Horses
36 Irish-bred horses contest Young Horse World Championships in Lanaken
The fifteen Irish-bred horses at the Tokyo Olympic Games
Reflecting on eight years as a breeder
Today marks exactly 8 years since my very first foal was born in Quarryfield. I can still remember the excitement, and good fortune, of being able to watch from the gate as Knightfield Mena give birth to healthy colt foal (pictured) by the previous year's World Cup winner, Flexible. I was 'as green as grass', had bought Mena with a loan that spring and did not have any existing customer base.
The leading Irish breeders of 2020
Seven years on from the Mare Championship in Punchestown
The leading Irish-bred eventers of 2020
The leading Irish-bred showjumpers of 2020
Here are the Top Six Irish-bred showjumpers in the final World Breeding Federation for Sport Horses (WBFSH) rankings for 2020. Two horses are tied for sixth this year - Castleforbes Vladimir & Columbcile De Reve.
The two highest ranked Irish-bred showjumpers, Galway Bay Jed and Luibanta, are both bred by Justin Burke of Galway Bay Stud