Showjumping 2025

The final of the Mackey Ireland Waterford Tipperary SJI Amateur League took place today at Dualla Show and it didn’t disappoint. Emma Walsh and the prolific Lux like a diamonds once again showed why she is the champ to fly around the Tony Hurley built track clear in 31.95 to take the win in the AA secton and overall. Not happy with winning the AA section Emma also took 2nd place with Carrow Cornet with another very fast clear round . Derrick Burke completed the AA podium with Tyreda Chip , unfortunate 4 faults in jump off but very fast time of 34.53.

 

In the A section Aileen O’ Connor had a super fast clear round in 33-02 to take top honours, Ruth Walsh and the ever reliable Joes Charm flew around clear in 34.92 to take 2nd place and overall A champion. David Ryan with Moonlight Cruising had a super clear round in 39.98 to complete the A podium.

 

Overall winners of the Mackey League are:

 

1st Ruth Walsh Joes Charm

2nd Des Hourigan Rosscarberys Lucky Star

3rd Mary O’Meara Kilconnel Pluto

 

1st Emma Walsh Lux like Diamonds

2nd Gary Flynn Bahrain Prince

Joint 3rd Hannah McNiven Hey You

Niall Browne Vicomte DH z

 

The Waterford Tipperary amateur committee would like to express their gratitude to all competitors and sponsors Mackey Ireland , NutriScience Equine and the Widger family Joan WidgerMargaret Widger for making it another great league . Looking forward to seeing you all again in 2026.