(Video) Mary Doyle, a member of Mill Road Riding Club, won AIRC's Masters Series Final with Mostown's Sheila Murphy claiming the Series crown.
(Audio) The Ballymacad Hunt will be holding one of the big show-piece events of the year, a hunt extravaganza, at Sallymount House, Fore, Co. Westmeath.
The International Affairs Committee of the Association of Irish Riding Clubs (AIRC) has announced the team which will represent the Association at the British Riding Clubs (BRC) Championships next month.
Read more: Squad named for British Riding Clubs Championships
The research was carried out by Dr Craig Reinemeyer and others at East Tennessee Clinical Research Inc.
In separate studies, the researchers examined the effectiveness of two dewormers against Oxyuris equi (equine pinworms), and Parascaris equorum (ascarids or roundworms) known to be resistant to macrocyclic lactones (the ivermectin-related family).
Equine pinworms rarely causes serious problems for the horse, but does cause irritation when the female lays the sticky eggs on the skin around the anus of the host. It has been assumed that most routine dewormers will control it.
Twenty-one horses with naturally acquired pinworm infections were divided into three groups. One was treated with pyrantel pamoate (at 13.2mg/kg - the dose used for tapeworms); one group received ivermectin (200mcg/kg) and the third group was left untreated.
Fourteen days later, post mortem examination of large intestinal contents showed that both dewormers produced a significant reduction in numbers of pinworms.
Pyrantel pamoate was 91.2 per cent effective, and ivermectin 96.0 per cent effective against the adult worms. Both products were more than 99 per cent effective against the fourth-stage pinworm larvae.
(Editorial) Managing Director of the Unex Group, Tim Gredley, has announced that there will be no more horse events at Towerlands.
"It's just financially not viable to run horse events there any more," Gredley said."Despite a massive cash injection a few years ago, we're failing to see a return on the horse business, which is very sad.
"The conference centre side and golf course are both successful - so we intend to explore other options, some of which include pop concerts, exhibitions and self storage units."
He added the announcement was "in no way" connected to his departure from the sport.
"We were thinking of terminating the horse events two years ago, but added more money and gave it another go, but it just wasn't working," he said.
(Video) It was the first running of the Horseware Amateur Show at Dromiskin, Co. Louth.
Read more: Intense Competition at relaxed Horseware Amateur Show
(Editorial) Hard-pressed horse-owners are facing a steep rise in feed-stuff prices
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