Eventing Ireland is not how you term it “shite” yes south of the border had problems at start of season, but Eventing Ireland Northern Region committee and all concerned worked their socks off making events happen and hundreds of riders came up and competed, take Tyrella for instance, 3 events one after another, volunteers (remember us) doing really long days, the course designer/builder giving every height a different course each week, this continued with the events until all the events in the south started running again….It really upsets me to read this, particularly as I am one of those volunteers and have volunteered with several others at nearly every event up here….So I took the fat ginger horse eventing yesterday!
Haven't evented her myself in over a year. Last event was an EI80 where she took 5th.
I had no aspirations yesterday, no expectations.
Just wanted a nice stress free day out with my pony.
And that is what we had, from start to finish she was perfect.
22 dressage and double clear to take 2nd
I know 80cm is teeny tiny but she LOVED it.
Theres a unaffiliated league running (Because eventing ireland cant seem to get their shite together) so we will aim for 2 more runs to qualify for the league final end of september!
Maybe she wants to be and eventer after all
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I think Eventing Ireland has gone down the swannie.
Well obviously the northern region is doing a stellar job.
So I will qualify this by saying that my geography *may* not be entirely accurate, but aren't Crecora, Ballindenisk, Grove, Millstreet and Clyda (and possibly Hillcrest?) all in Munster and all running events this season (in some cases multiple)? I agree EI were a mess at the beginning of the season but I really think they've got their act together for the second half of the season. I remember back in the day having to drive to Cork every second weekend for events so from a selfish standpoint its quite nice to have a few more around the Leinster region! It has got ridiculously expensive sadly but the youth training they run off season is very good value and well run - Im not sure if they also have something similar for amateurs (if not they probably should!).
Your right. Ballindenisk ran 2 back to back early in season, Millstreet dont run national one days, and Grove and Clyda are only on the calender for one event each this season. Crecora also only ran one. Also Hillcrest ran once. So all in all thats 6/7 national events in munster all season which is not alot.
True, but i think the difference is that at one stage they were nearly all in Munster, now they're a bit more spread out. There are probably also about 7 in Leinster, of which 4 are Frankfrort
Probably depends where you are in Munster whether its feasible to drive to other regions or not. Fwiw we also didn't join this season but may do so again next year if it continues to run smoothly. I do think they're trying very hard to get it right and if no-one supports we'll end up with no eventing unfortunately.
Munster is a very big place and we are down the very south not feesable to drive to other regions(Even tho I have in the past attended Punchestown, Tatts and Killossery).True, but i think the difference is that at one stage they were nearly all in Munster, now they're a bit more spread out. There are probably also about 7 in Leinster, of which 4 are Frankfrort
I think they all run amateur sections if there are entries? Not sure about 80s, I guess a lot of them don't have 80cm courses, same way some of the venues don't run anything over 110.
Take yourself to Cairnryan, hop on ferry (2 hours to NI) and enjoy our events in Northern Ireland most events are within a couple of hours of ferry and indeed three are just minutes away…you would be made very welcome…lots of racehorse trainers North and South travel that way to racecourses in the North of England and Scotland every week….
It's an interesting idea, but unfortunately doesn't stack up!
That was what I was thinking. 5 or 6 a year in Scotland in total. Once a month and you are being busy
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Evening,
I've been following this post for a while now, always very envious of you all out doing it!
Anyway, we now have two BE trips under our belts! We've dipped our toe twice this year (and i must admit we both LOVE it), only starting with GO80 but i am seriously considering joining BE next year.
Our first outing was Launceston which wasn't a great day due to a mishap in the SJ warm up (someone pretty much rapped my horse despite me calling the fence). Anyway, we finished that day with an 8th place finish.
More recently we've been to Bicton, again to do the GO80 and he was was fab. Still struggling with dressage as he seems to lose the plot a bit but we managed at 35.8, followed by a pingy clear SJ and a fab clear run XC - with a few time penalties but we finished 3rd out of a big section!
I am so pleased with him, he's super speedy and bold - we do have a few communication issues coming into fences as he is very keen but hoping to get some training done this winter to help with that. Sadly I think that will be it for us this year, we're based down on The Lizard in Cornwall so everything is quite a trek for us, but looking forward to getting to some next year with him!
Here's a couple photos of us at Bicton
He is - and he truly loves it which is a lovely feeling as you're whizzing around.
The one I expect to win was at least a great racehorse winning £250k and is a very useful 4* horse now!
Which one is that? I havent been through the entries - although I think there are some entered which haven't actually achieved the specified MERs yet... It says MERs are to be achieved 'by the point of entry' - I wonder if they'll be weeded out or whether they'll be allowed to pick up MERs in the coming weeks...
Evening,
I've been following this post for a while now, always very envious of you all out doing it!
Anyway, we now have two BE trips under our belts! We've dipped our toe twice this year (and i must admit we both LOVE it), only starting with GO80 but i am seriously considering joining BE next year.
Our first outing was Launceston which wasn't a great day due to a mishap in the SJ warm up (someone pretty much rapped my horse despite me calling the fence). Anyway, we finished that day with an 8th place finish.
More recently we've been to Bicton, again to do the GO80 and he was was fab. Still struggling with dressage as he seems to lose the plot a bit but we managed at 35.8, followed by a pingy clear SJ and a fab clear run XC - with a few time penalties but we finished 3rd out of a big section!
I am so pleased with him, he's super speedy and bold - we do have a few communication issues coming into fences as he is very keen but hoping to get some training done this winter to help with that. Sadly I think that will be it for us this year, we're based down on The Lizard in Cornwall so everything is quite a trek for us, but looking forward to getting to some next year with him!
Here's a couple photos of us at Bicton
The entry criteria for this is slightly different. They just need to be TB. Don't need to have any connection to racing at all. Hopefully there will be plenty racehorses amongst them though.
When they announced the class, they included that horses should not have competed at 4* or above in the last two years….but that seems to be missing in the current schedule?!
