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The Irish Draught horse is the national horse breed of Ireland which developed primarily for farm use. Today, they are especially popular for crossing with Thoroughbreds and warmbloods , producing the popular Irish Sport Horses (also called Irish Draught Sport Horses) which excel at the highest levels of eventing and show jumping .
The Kerry Bog Pony is a mountain and moorland breed of pony that originated in Ireland. Possibly descended from the Irish Hobby horse, it originally lived a mainly feral existence in the peat bogs of what is now County Kerry in southwestern Ireland. Local inhabitants used the ponies as pack and cart horses for transporting peat and kelp to the ...
The race is funded by Goffs, a leading Irish bloodstock auctioneer and was reserved for horses catalogued as yearlings in the previous year's Goffs Million Sale. [citation needed] The first running was in 2006, when the Goffs Million was a single race contested over 7 furlongs (1,408 metres). [2] The event was split into two separate divisions ...
Insular style illustration of a man riding a horse, from the Book of Kells. Horse racing in Ireland has a very long history. The ancient text Togail Bruidne Dá Derga (Destruction of the Mansion of Da-Derga) mentions chariot races taking place on the Curragh during the lifetime of the monarch Conaire Mór, [1] [2] whose reign is disputed but is believed to have occurred sometime between 110 BC ...
Horses may be of any color, and the standard describes stallions as being generally taller than 160 cm (15.3 h) and mares 150 to 161 cm (14.3 to 15.3 h). [5] [6] According to the registration rules of the Irish Draught Horse Society of Canada, The Irish Draught Sport Horse is a versatile, powerful and athletic animal with substance and quality.
In Ireland, a yearling Sadler's Wells filly, later named Liffey Dancer, set a new world record price [when?] of $5,330,000 at the October Tattersalls Book 1 sale. (The previous sale record price was set at the 2000 Keeneland yearling sale for Moon's Whisper at $4.4 million.)
The Irish Horse Welfare Trust is located on a 68 acre farm in Co. Wicklow, within the vicinity of the Wicklow Mountains, which it purchased in 2008, having raised almost €700,000 through donations and a mortgage. It also acknowledged donations from Horse Racing Ireland and the Irish National Stud. Prior to this, it had been renting a facility.
My Dream Boat is a bay horse with no white markings bred in Ireland by Patrick Monahan. Having been withdrawn from sale as a foal in November 2012, the colt was put up for auction at Goffs as a yearling in February 2013 and was sold for €3,500 to Patrick Moyles. [2]