Tattersalls looks set to be an Irish record-breaker
Tattersalls International three-day event (28-31 May) looks set to welcome a record number of Olympic medallists to the competition in Co Meath, Ireland.
Visitors will have the opportunity to watch no less than 8 Olympic medallists compete.
Horse Sport Ireland (HSI) has confirmed that Mark Todd, Andrew Nicholson. Jeanette Brakewell, Pippa Funnell, Mary King, William Fox-Pitt and Clayton and Lucinda Fredericks have all applied to take part.
HSI chairman Joe Walsh said he believed that it was a record for an Irish event.
He said: “It’s extraordinary that an event in Ireland has reached a level where Olympic medallists, who between them have won 18 medals, would come to compete.”
Winner of this year’s Badminton Oli Townend and World Champion Zara Phillips are also due to ride, added Mr Walsh.
The event, which features Ireland’s HSBC Eventing World Cup qualifier, will have benefited from the cancellation of the UK’s qualifier at Chatsworth Horse Trials on17 May because of wet weather.
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A self-confessed newshound, farmer’s daughter and journalist of many years' experience, Charlotte worked on regional papers before joining H&H in 2007. A regular rider, she visited Ireland in 2010 to investigate the fate of Irish horses through the recession, to much acclaim, and reported from the FEI General Assembly in Rio de Janeiro in 2011. She left Horse & Hound in March 2013.