Category Archives: Dressage

Full results from Beach Show (now including showing)

Roisin has sent on the full results for the dressage and show jumping classes at Sunday’s damp Beach Show. She’s used all her ingenuity to piece together the disintegrated remains of the showing results sheets, so that section is now complete. It was a good day for the club with excellent dressage wins and placesContinue reading “Full results from Beach Show (now including showing)”

God lets down the Gaeltachts but the show goes on

Is God losing it? Unfailingly reliable in his delivery of good weather for the Beach Show up until now, he badly misjudged things this year and abandoned the Gaeltachts in their hour of need. But the show went on. Rain pelted down relentlessly in a chilly breeze and the biggest winners on the day wereContinue reading “God lets down the Gaeltachts but the show goes on”

Beach Show the highlight of this bank holiday weekend

Certain events win a place in the subconscious alongside Christmas and birthdays, first communions and confirmations. The Donegal Gaeltacht’s beach show has earned its place in this calendar of annual highlights. It wouldn’t be the June bank holiday weekend without the long slow drive out to Falcarragh and the familiar thrill as the jeep crests theContinue reading “Beach Show the highlight of this bank holiday weekend”

Details of Regional Training Day, Cloncaw EC, Sunday 19 June

This year sees the introduction of a very welcome second regional training day in the Western region’s calendar. Flowerhill is a wonderful venue for the usual training day but it’s too far to travel for the majority of the Donegal clubs’ members. Cloncaw Equestrian Centre in Glaslough is a much handier alternative and will hopefullyContinue reading “Details of Regional Training Day, Cloncaw EC, Sunday 19 June”

Beach Show schedule promises another great day at the seaside

Donegal Gaeltacht Riding Club have published the schedule for one of the year’s most eagerly anticipated events. Their famous Beach Show takes place on Sunday 5 June at Ballyness Bay, Falcarragh. The 2011 schedule includes an impressive range of showing classes on top of the show jumping and dressage events that we’ve seen for theContinue reading “Beach Show schedule promises another great day at the seaside”

Full results from Spring League Show

Martina has quickly completed the paperwork for Sunday’s show and already has the full results to hand. In her thorough scrutiny of the dressage sheets she spotted an error in the Intermediate results that were announced for the class on the day. Somehow Anne Chamber’s excellent test on Molly was overlooked in the heat ofContinue reading “Full results from Spring League Show”

Pig off on its travels while the rest of the prizes stay local at a great Spring Show

The weather was every bit as bad as anticipated but the shelter of Eglinton’s covered arenas allowed everybody enjoy our Spring League Show. 60th, 80th and 18th birthdays, first communion celebrations and all sorts of other seasonal events contrived to keep entries on the low side but this had little impact on the atmosphere. WhereverContinue reading “Pig off on its travels while the rest of the prizes stay local at a great Spring Show”

Three more local shows for your diesel-saving diary

Dates for three non-AIRC show jumping events are now set in stone — welcome additions to the local calendar at a time when the cost of travelling is prohibitive. On our own turf, Mary Finneran and the crew at Glenleary are planning their second annual summer show on Sunday 26 June in Ramelton. The programmeContinue reading “Three more local shows for your diesel-saving diary”