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In September 2013 Paul Makin announced that he was selling off nearly all of his horses [11] and Chicquita was offered for sale at Goffs in November. She was bought for €6,000,000, a record for a horse sold at auction in Ireland, [ 12 ] by the bloodstock agents Peter & Ross Doyle, acting on behalf of John Magnier 's Coolmore Stud organisation ...
In 1976, the Irish Draught Horse Society was founded to preserve the breed, [9] with an external branch in Great Britain emerging in 1979. A horse board, Bord na gCapall, was also founded in 1976 (later resurrected as the Irish Horse Board in 1993), in order to promote the breeding and use of horses other than Thoroughbreds in the country. [2]
However, those efforts were not seen as successful, as Irish Draught breeders thought the Clydesdale blood made their horses coarser and prone to lower leg faults, such as tied-in below the knee. [11]: 374–375 The Australian Draught horse was created using European draft breeds, including the Clydesdale, imported in the late 1800s. [30]
The Cleveland Bay is a versatile horse and is still used today for many tasks, including driving and farmwork. [6] The horses are used as heavy hunters, as they are powerful and able to carry a man weighing 250 pounds (110 kg) for a full day of hunting over large obstacles and through heavy clay.
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(The previous sale record price was set at the 2000 Keeneland yearling sale for Moon's Whisper at $4.4 million.) In 2014 Tattersalls Ltd announced that it had acquired a majority stake in Osarus, a bloodstock-sales company based in the South West region of France which has been rapidly establishing itself within the French market since its ...
Coolmore's National Hunt division consists of three farms in Ireland: Grange Stud, Beeches Stud and Castlehyde Stud. The Magnier family has been breeding horses for the National Hunt since the 1850s. Over the generations, they have stood several outstanding jump stallions, including 14-time leading sire Deep Run, and 4-time leader Be My Native.
Irish horse trainers (1 C, 1 P) J. Irish jockeys (2 C, 125 P) R. Irish racehorse owners and breeders (23 P) Racehorses bred in Ireland (870 P) Horse races in Ireland ...