Farewell to showjumping personality Frank Kernan
Northern Irish breeder and showjumping personality Frank Kernan died on 11 February, at the age of 78.
He was the owner-breeder of the stallion Touchdown, who was jumped at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics by his son James.
Also a former professional footballer for Armagh, Mr Kernan supplied top horses to David Broome and Harvey Smith, including Harvey’s 1970 and 1971 Hickstead Derby winner Mattie Brown and David’s 1972 King George V Gold Cup winner Sportsman.
This news story was first published in the current issue of Horse & Hound (3 March, 2011)
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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.