Ireland’s top dressage rider Judy Reynolds has retired her Olympic horse Vancouver K, at the age of 19.
The Jazz x Ferro gelding was Judy’s ride at the 2016 Rio Olympics, where Judy became the first Irish rider to qualify for the dressage final when she and “JP” made it through to the grand prix freestyle, and finished 18th.
As well as the Olympics, Judy and JP also represented Ireland at the 2014 World Equestrian Games in Caen and the 2019 European Championships in Rotterdam, where they once again made history by leading the quartet that would secure Ireland’s first ever team qualification for an Olympic Games. They also finished fifth in the freestyle with a career best score of 85.89%.
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Darragh Kenny is currently ranked ninth in the world in show jumping. \ Sportfot
Last week saw the publication of the latest Longines FEI World Rankings in which Irish show jumpers were strongly represented in the top 100.
This feat comes after Irish competitors enjoyed an excellent run of forms over the last three months at the Winter Equestrian Festival in Florida. Twelve Irish show jumpers are now ranked in the top 100.
Under the new COVID-19 rankings policy, which came into effect 12 months ago, the results counted are from the period of 1 March 2019 to 31 March 2021.
After first entering the top 10 in November 2019, Darragh Kenny has managed to stay there since and is still the highest-ranked Irish rider, in ninth place, sitting just behind Britain’s Scott Brash, who has spent the first four months of the year competing in Europe and Qatar.
Easter in the Park gives Brazos churchgoers sense of normalcy amid pandemic
Pastor Schoeneck says many are looking for signals that normalcy is returning and to be able to attend a church service offers hope things are headed in that direction.
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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS â For the second time since the pandemic began, Easter services looked a little different for many. Easter in the Park, a sunrise service, has not only been a tradition for Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church, but also the College Station community since 2005. If we would have known 15-16 years ago that we were designing the most pandemic-friendly church service, we would take credit for it. But what an opportunity this year in particular that Easter is outside and we were able to have a wonderful crowd in a very safe way to celebrate Jesus resurrection, Caleb Schoeneck, Pastor of Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church said.