MARES dominated the medal positions at last week’s FEI WBFSH eventing world breeding championships for young horses at Le Lion d’Angers, with a bronze from the CCI2*-L for six-year-olds making its way to Ireland following Sunday’s prize giving ceremony at the popular French venue.

There is very much an international flavour to this result, as Cooley On Ice is a Zangersheide mare owned by Co Wicklow-based Cooley Farm and rider Amanda Goldsbury. Competing at the championships for the first time, New Zealand international Goldsbury finished 16th on her second ride, Cooley Farm’s Irish Sport Horse gelding Coolnorran Cooley.