AIRC National Showjumping Championship victory for Pat O’Neill
Local Connemara Pony breeder and now top rider Pat O’Neill of Illaunurra Ponies, Ballyconneely has had immense success this year with his home-bred and produced 11 yr old gelding, Illaunurra Shadow (by Silver Shadow, out of Illaunurra Mist). This super combination won the Connolly’s Red Mills Intermediate AIRC National Showjumping Championship at Mullingar Equestrian Centre on the 10th of July last. They beat a field of 82 riders (mainly riding horses). Everyone who went clear in the first round had to then jump against the clock and the twenty fastest times...