Following the success of the inaugural event in 2025, the Wellington Breeders’ Talk returns to Wellington International on Thursday 12th March 2026.

We are delighted to announce that Connect, Select, & Grow - Denmark will take place on Thursday, 5th March 2026, during the Danish Warmblood Stallion Show in Herning.

Connect, Select & Grow returns to Tullamore’s Bridge House Hotel on Thursday, February 26th, 2026. Now entering its third Irish edition, the event has established itself as a popular and well-regarded forum for engaged sport horse breeders.

Irish bred horses made a total of 13 CSIO5* team appearances, featuring at 11 of the 14 venues

Having studied the pedigrees of all 40 horses contesting the CSI5* Rolex Grand Prix of Geneva, here are my breeding insights.

A total of 89 horses, representing 23 nations, contested the first qualifying competition of the Longines FEI Jumping European Championship 2025. Having studied the pedigrees of all horses in the opening competition, here are my breeding insights.

The fourth edition of the popular RDS Breeders’ Talk returns on Saturday, 9th August during this year’s RDS Dublin Horse Show. Sponsored by Plusvital, a global leader in equine science and supplements, the event will take place in the RDS Library from 6-8pm

Behind every top-level showjumper lies a breeder, a pedigree, and a set of breeding decisions taken a decade or more ago. This article delves into the breeding details of the horses who claimed victory at five-star Grand Prix and World Cup level in 2024, analysing their parentage, damlines and breeders that set the foundation for their success. 

Discussions will centre around equine reproduction, young horse production, and the demands of top-level show jumping, offering attendees an excellent opportunity to hear directly from experts in their field.

Following the success of the sold out inaugural event in 2024, Connect, Select & Grow returns to Tullamore’s Bridge House Hotel on Thursday 27th February 2025. Plusvital, a leader in equine science and supplements, is title sponsor of this year’s event. 

13 CSIO5* team competitions were scheduled in 2024. The cancellation of the St. Gallen Longines League of Nations (LLN) reduced it to 12. 8 Irish bred horses accounted for 13 CSIO5* team appearances, representing four individual nations.

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.

Setting out to establish a breeding programme in my 20s, I sought out successful breeders at every opportunity. I wanted to understand how the best did what they did.

'Connect, Select & Grow' is a sport horse breeder event, consisting of sessions on Networking, Stallion Selection & Growing Your Market. The event takes place in the Bridge House Hotel, Tullamore, on Thursday 18th April 2024.

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.

The FEI/WBFSH Eventing World Breeding Championship for Young Horses takes place in Le Lion d’Angers, France, this week. A total of 28 Irish-bred horses will contest the championship across the Six Year Old and Seven Year Old divisions.

Having gone through the pedigrees of all 85 horses competing at the FEI Jumping European Championship 2023, here are my breeding insights.

Over 1/3 of the horses competing at the Longines Global Champions Tour in Mexico this week, are the offspring of stallions who themselves competed on the Longines Global Champions Tour circuit in past seasons

In recent times, many top riders have also developed a breeding element to their business

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.