Five Irish horses in Kentucky top 15

Allison Springer together with Arthur. © RK3DE

Five Irish-bred horses finished inward the laissez passer on off xv of the Rolex Kentucky Three Day Event at the weekend.

The USA’s Allison Springer took minute house on the Irish Gaelic thoroughbred gelding Arthur (Brandenburg’s Windstar x Like Quick), piece the Cruising boy Mr Medicott (ex Slieveluachra), alongside Karen O’Connor (USA) on board, placed fourth, on equal points alongside the USA’s Boyd Martin together with the French-bred selle français Otis Barbotiere (Quidam de Revel x Java Barbotiere), who squeezed into 3rd alongside the create goodness of a faster cross-country time.

Irish Sport Horse Mighty Nice (Ard Ohio x Sarazen) finished inward tenth house alongside the USA’s Phillip Dutton, alongside ii other members of the Irish Gaelic Sport Horse Studbook filling the side past times side places on the leaderboard.

Canada’s Peter Barry was 11th on the Tipperary-bred bay gelding Kilrodan Abbott (Clover Brigade x Gentle Lassie), together with Dutton rode the Co. Antrim-bred gelding Fernhill Eagle (Coronea Eagle x Tango Teela) into twelfth place.

The Kentucky event, which featured 57 starters, is ane of the laissez passer on off ranked three-day-events inward the basis together with attracts the cream of international eventing riders together with horses. It was won this yr past times Britain’s William Fox-Pitt on the New Zealand thoroughbred Parklane Hawk (Grosvenor x Deebee Lady past times Brilliant Invader).

Second-placed Springer said that she was “very, real pleased alongside Arthur. Four years ago, I went into demo jumping inward 5th place, together with I stopped counting later on v rails. But this fourth dimension I was excited to come upwards inward the demo jumping outcry upwards because I knew what I had to do, together with I did it. It’s corking to experience that agency later on all 3 days.”

By winning the Rolex USET Four-Star Championship every bit the top-placed United States of America rider, Springer, 37, also won a exceptional prize—an 18-month lease of a 2012 Range Rover HSE courtesy of Land Rover North America.

Springer test-drove the car on a lap unopen to the Rolex Stadium during the awards ceremony. “It’s a expert affair they kept somebody inward the car alongside me, or I’d convey been out at that topographic point doing donuts!” she said.

 

 

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