Congratulations to all who participated in the Area 4 Festival qualifier, it was a pleasure hosting you and we hope you enjoyed the day.

Here are the results, for those who qualified we look forward to seeing you at the Festival in the coming weeks. All Horsemanship Judging was carried out by independent Judges.

Alice Mernagh / U12

Times and groups for June 26th at Barnadown, please be warmed up and ready for your allotted time to get the most from your lesson. Lower warm up arenas is the location in Barnadown.

3pm Millie McBride & Amy Lambert

4pm Ciara Kelly & Matthew Kelly

5pm Caitroin Doyle & Grace Scully

The Island PC are delighted to announce, by popular demand, Anne Marie Dunphy who has kindly agreed to train our members in preparation for the Pure Dressage and Combined Training Qualifer on july 20th and to prepare our event riders for the eventing season that kicked off last weekend. 

Dates are as follows Wednesdays June 26th, July 10th, July 17th at Barnadown, semi private lesson with 2 people for 1 hour €50pp for each lesson. Book through itsplainsailing now open closing the Sunday before at 9pm. Book individually or as a group of 3.

Anne Marie is one of Ireland’s leading dressage riders and coaches. During her career she has produced dressage horses for all levels of competition from young horses to Grand Prix, winning numerous National and Regional championship titles and has represented Ireland at International Dressage Competitions throughout Europe.

Having worked in many aspects of the sport horse and thoroughbred industries before specialising in dressage, Anne Marie firmly believes in the importance of good flatwork training in producing top horses and riders across all the equestrian disciplines. Her early experience working in various areas of equestrian sport, coupled now with her knowledge of top level dressage, brings a unique dimension to both her riding and coaching.
Anne Marie’s time spent training with some of the most respected names in the sport underpins her qualifications and competitive successes.

Anne Marie’s qualifications and appointments include:

* HSI Level 3 Dressage Coach
* Coaching Ireland Tutor
* Irish Certificate in Equitation Science
* Dressage Ireland List 5 Judge
* HSI High Performance Pony/Junior Dressage Manager.
* Irish National Dressage Champion 2016 and 2017

Her students include many of Ireland’s most successful dressage, show jumping and eventing riders, from National and International pony, junior and young rider levels through to the senior ranks.

We are delighted to announce Senior games training will commence next Tuesday night 21st of May at Leslie Dixons Farm, Clogh with trainer Ted Creed. Ted has been involved in MGA and PC games for the past number of years in Ireland and the UK. He, his wife and his children have been heavily involved in the Island PC for many years, we welcome him and wish him well as the journey begins in preparation for the RDS qualifiers that starts with Gorey show on the 15th June.

Please join me in giving Ted a very big friendly welcome.