Para Equestrian Dressage Rider
I watched Rocky (my horse) leave yesterday to start his journey to Rio and I felt quite emotional. It kind of hit me, I am going to my second Paralympics something that I couldn’t have thought of happening about 8…
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In April of this year I had to make a heartbreaking decision to put Mister Cool or Charlie as I always called him to sleep. He had a freak accident out in the field and ruptured his superficial tendon. It…
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I am not as good as I should be at keeping my Facebook Twitter or blog page on my website updated so I am just going, here is the first of many (hopefully) I am sure lots of people are…
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Wow, I haven’t written in this in a long time! Unfortunately I am only getting around to this because I have a broken thumb and it is one of the few things I can do. It has been over a…
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What can I say, this has been one of the most memorable experiences of my life. To come away with three medals was way more than I ever could have anticipated. Going to the games, I felt there was potential…
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I haven’t written in ages, for one my time seams to taken up with various different bits of prep but the other reason was because I didn’t know what I wanted to say. This is just a quick post to let…
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So I had my first attempt at producing a score for Irish selection and it went pretty well. I managed an aggregate score of 70.78%, a full 3% above any of the other Irish riders. The Irish selection policy dictates…
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This is just a quick update because I haven written anything in ages. I am off to France in the morning. Mister Cool left Sunday evening, rested in England today and he will set off for France this evening. This…
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The new year has gotten off to a great start. Yesterday, February 1st we got the official word that Ireland has qualified a team for Para Equestrian Dressage at the Paralympics. The whole team have put in huge work this…
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Below is a video showing some of the highlights of 2011. It was my first year with Mister Cool and we finished the year at the European Championships claiming an individual bronze for Ireland This video contains snippets from…
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