WHAT a year it has been for Irish Sport Horses in 2022. As I sat down to write my annual international show jumping review of this year this week, with two big five-star shows still to come, it just drove home how much talent we have in both two-legged and four-legged athletes.

You will have to come back next week to read the full
review (as well as many other disciplines), but the highlight was undoubtedly the Aga Khan win at the Dublin Horse Show when there were two Irish Sport Horses on the team in Kilkenny and CSF James Kann Cruz. I was at that post press conference in the RDS when the proud breeders – Brennan and Connolly families – got pictures with the Aga Khan; it was truly special to see their joy and pride.