THE HSI Foal Championship aims to identify, evaluate and reward breeders who have bred a foal that has the potential to be competitive at the highest level in show jumping or eventing.

Olive Clarke was the Reserve Champion (2015) and Champion (2016) of the HSI Foal Championship with her lovely foal out of her own jumping mare Paradise G. She said: “We’ve had excellent success with the Horse Sport Ireland Foal Championships since our first year in 2015. Our now five-year-old filly by Cornet Obolensky (BWP) out of Paradise G (KWPN) by Indoctro (HOLST) came second in the show jumping filly foal section. However, we decided not to sell this filly at the time. We are very excited to see where she takes us, given her dam’s success winning multiple national Grands Prix and coming fourth in the Hickstead Speed Derby in 2009.