Anybody know how many Irish-bred horses there were in the eventing ?
At Hong Kong there were seven in the top fifteen placings.
The winner was a Baden Wittenburg (sp?)
The winner is also 3/4 TB
Silver medallist Cool Mountain is also >75% TB and a British Sports Horse
http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/cool+mountain
The other British horses were Opposition Buzz, by the Trakehner Fleetwater Opposition out of a TB mare
http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/opposition+buzz
Redesigned is another British Bred horse with Selle Francais and Anglo Arab bloodlines.
http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/redesigned
Miner’s Frolic is a British Bred TB
http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/miners+frolic
Imperial Cavalier is probably Irish bred, by Cavalier Royale, out of a TB mare.
The dam of Imperial Cavalier was an ISH.
Any lists of horses with specifically Irish blood in them.
Very quickly during my lunchbreak calculations, there were 13 ISH (Irish-breds) in the WEG eventing line-up. Not necessarily, as in the case of Quantum Leap, foaled in Ireland but either officially tagged or known as Irish-breds.
Mandiba (Master Imp xx X Chair Lift xx)
Imperial Cavalier (Cavalier Royale (Holst) x Imperius xx)
Grass Valley (Legal Pressure xx X Clover Hill (RID))
Horseware Bushman (Puissance (ISH) x Horos xx)
The Jump Jet (Cavalier Royale (Holst) x Triggerero xx)
Mr Medicott (Cruising (ISH) x Edmund Burke xx)
Fernhill Gloster Rebel (Rich Rebel xx X Clover Hill - damsire TBC)
Artic Fox Too (unknown)
Ballynoe Castle RM (Ramiro B (BWP) x Blue Laser xx)
Step In Time (Step Together xx X Sir Daemon xx)
Quantum Leap (Glenagyle Rebel (RID) )
Fernhill Clover Mist (Kiltealy Spring (ISH) x Clover Hill (RID)
Portersize Just A Jiff (Crosskeys Rebel (Connemara) x Mizen Melody xx)
Still checking about Jakarta whose sire Abdullah is either the Trakehner (which I’d guess after ‘seeing’ him or possibly the deceased Irish thoroughbred namesake) and there was some speculation about Hooligan’s origins.
But definitely 13. As Sam is by the exported Stan The Man xx - a very under-used sire during his Irish years - perhaps 13.5?
COTH’s WEG preview issue had a list of probable entries with their breeding. Unfortunately i can’t find my copy.
Two of the best, Kim Severson’s horse and Cruise Master did not start
I don’t have the resources to research all this (I’m a bit duh, sometimes) but it would be soooooo nice if commentators would research the breeding and let us know who is who. We get snippets of bio on the riders, but their partners, not so much.
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I don’t have the resources to research all this (I’m a bit duh, sometimes) but it would be soooooo nice if commentators would research the breeding and let us know who is who. We get snippets of bio on the riders, but their partners, not so much.[/QUOTE]
I don’t know which coverage you’ve been watching but the commentators for FEItv have been mentioning the breeding on almost every horse. Overall the commentating has been better than usual, although their occasional mistakes are funny like today they thought one girl was a certain rider and commented on her as such for most of the round and then finally realized she was someone else towards the end and one oft he guys said something like ‘I thought she looked a bit heavier than I remember her being.’ Can you imagine? Bad enough that the poor girl on course (who was having a nice round) was being called someone else, but then to be called heavier than the girl they’s been going on about her whole round? At least these guys admit their mistakes and make fun of themselves when they get something wrong instead of acting like know-it-alls while making ridiculously uneducated remarks which seems to be the norm in equestrian commentating.
