Cian O’Connor joins Minister to launch €200k Show Jumping and Eventing HSI Studbook Series

Minister for Agriculture Charlie McConalogue, T.D, joined Irish Olympian Cian O’Connor and two of Ireland’s performance studbooks at Karlswood on Thursday morning to launch the 2023 Horse Sport Ireland (HSI) Studbook Series in both show jumping and eventing disciplines. Minister McConalogue officially opened the series at O’Connor’s Karlswood base in Co. Meath alongside breeding directors from HSI and the Warmblood Studbook of Ireland (WSI), with the competition open to all Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM)-approved Studbooks for the second year running, and for the first time ever in eventing. In an important show of solidarity within the sector, HSI Head of Breeding, Innovation and Development Sonja Egan and Chief Executive Denis Duggan were in attendance alongside O’Connor, Minister McConalogue and WSI Breeding Director Thomas Reed to launch an important event for the production of young sport horses in Ireland. Running from May through to September, the HSI […]