Badminton Irish entries?

[henryhorn]

Just browsing who's entered and there seem to be hardly any Irish ones, have I missed something?

 

[sea_view]

I noticed that lots of the Irish have withdrawn?

 

[connie1288]

7 withdrawn, so only the 2 left!! no idea why thought, just everything has to be perfect really.

 

[SilentEcho]

Hi,
I have no answer based in fact, but perhaps the clash with Ian Oldings memorial service may have something to do with it?
Just a suggestion!!

 

[KatB]

Know one of the Irish contingents had his horse go lame so missed his prep, hence his W/D

 

[connie1288]

most were withdrawn before Belton tbh!!

 

[Fiona]

We had about nine entered originally, but all dropped out except for Elizabeth Power and Sam Watson (both of whom are based in England at the moment).

Don't know much about why the others have pulled out, but Michael Ryan's Old Road is entered for Kilmanahan in the OI on Sunday, so he isn't injured anyway.

Haven't been eventing this weekend to find out the gossip.

Anyone else know??

Fiona

 

[only_me]

Clare Abbott pulled out because horse had non-serious injury but meant that she missed Belton, so would have had no prep run.

But horse is fine now, but not badminton fit if you know what i mean

 

[Kentisheventer]

i think i saw quite a few top rish ones at chatsworth in the CCI***W

 

[Fiona]

Good sleuthing kentisheventer - thats three of them located anyway. Glad none of them are injured.

Fiona

 

[ruby111]

have a feeling some of this could be tactical.people try to box clever tor selection purposes

 

[only_me]

I presume that most of the irish entries would have re-reouted to tattersalls, makes more sense

except those that are based in england obviously!

Still, Mark Todd heading to tatts

cant wait!

 

[ruby111]

by the way i heard niall griffins lorgain is injured another big loss to the irish along with hobby du mee

 

[KatB]

Yeah it was Nialls horse I was referring to. I dont believe its career ending though!!

 

[only_me]

yes, apparantly Nialls horse has done a tendon

thats what i was told at last event anyhoos!

hope it hasnt

but was a rather reliable source unfortunatley

 

[KatB]

Will try and find out next week

I knew he was out, but even with a tendon its still possible to be back competing. I have a VERY reliable source

 

[ruby111]

i see michael ryan has master mexico back in action .

 

[billyslad]

I think the Irish are all jostling for team places and it didnt cost anything to enter Badminton so when the criteria for Team selection was changed a few of them changed their plans , hence the reroute to Tatts

 

[Fiona]

I had that thought last night billyslad (as all of them seem to be running in either the world cup qual at Chatsworth or at Tatts), so nice to have it confirmed.

Fiona

 

[Mickyjoe]

The Ryans decided to focus on European Team Selection.