Joseph Murphy and Electric Cruise at Tattersalls 2014
Update:
Austin O’Connor has had to withdraw Ringwood Mississippi from the squad and has been replaced by Camilla Speirs and Portersize Just a Jiff
Nick Turner, Ireland’s Eventing High Performance Team Manager has announced the Irish Eventing Squad for the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games 2014 and it’s probably no surprise that six of the seven horses named are Irish Sport Horses, as are four of the five reserve horses
The selected squad in alphabetical order is:
•Clare Abbott riding Cormac Mackay’s Euro Prince (ISH)
•Aoife Clark riding PJ Hegarty’s Fenyas Elegance (ISH) (or Henrietta Duchess of Bedford & Jacqueline Norris’s Vaguely North as a direct reserve horse)
•Sarah Ennis riding Tom McGuinness, Nicky Potterton and the late Orla Ennis’s Stellor Rebound (ISH)
•Joseph Murphy riding Noel Good, Jill Andrews, A. O’Callaghan and Michelle Nelson’s Electric Cruise (ISH)
•Austin O’Connor riding Kate Jarvey’s Ringwood Mississippi (ISH) and
•Sam Watson riding Tom MacGuinness, John and Julia Watson’s Horseware Bushman (ISH).
The reserve list is as follows in alphabetical order:
Joseph Murphy riding Jill Murphy, Alison Schmutz and Andrew Tinkler’s Sportsfield Othello (ISH); Jim Newsam riding his own Magennis (ISH), Michael Ryan riding Carol & Tom Henry and Sheila Foley’s Ballylynch Adventure (ISH) and Camilla Spiers riding Bridget Speirs' and her own Portersize Just A Jiff (ISH)
Nick said that “The six riders have a wealth of experience riding horses that have good 4 star experience or very impressive wins recently at 3 star level. We look forward to the World Equestrian Games with the main objective of securing Olympic qualification, yet a medal is always in our sights.”
The impressive wins include titles at three of Britain’s major competitions in the past year with Aoife Clark winning at Bramham recently and Blenheim in September last year while Sarah Ennis won at Chatsworth in May
