May Update

Our members have been extremely busy travelling to Clonshire Ode where in the Intermediate competition Ana Maria Hughes took 4^th place and in the Advanced Primary Susan O’Regan took 1^st with Zanka.

We then spent a delightful evening in Tony and Pat Lewis, where even the weather couldn’t dampen the spirits of the large number that attended.

The following Sunday we travelled to Skevanish for their ODE and John Cantillon took 3^rd in the Advanced intermediate. Barbara Maher finished 2^nd in the intermediate competition and we had a great result in Advanced Primary with Fionna O’Regan 2^nd, Brian O’Dwyer 3^rd, Susan O’Regan 3^rd and Mags O’Shea 5^th. Well done to all.

Next our show jumping team headed off to Highland lodge to represent Earlswell in the team qualifier where Sarah Beasley, Johanna Maher, Niamh Grainger & Barbara Maher more then did us proud by taking 2^nd place. This means the team now jump off for a place in the RDS final. The jump off takes place in Stradbally on Saturday 7^th June and I would urge anyone who can go along to support to please do so!!!

As if all that wasn’t enough last Friday we headed to Denis & Jo Murphy’s in Castlewhite for a Jump Cross evening. The weather finally worked out for us and a great evening was had by all. Some of us finishing up the social part later then others….A special thank you must be said to Brian and Denis for all the work they put into the course, this was our first event there and huge work went into getting the course up.

Finally 3 of our riders attended a show jumping and dressage training day in Mallow last Sunday, and tell me it was a great day out.