World No. 34 Cian O’Connor of Ireland has reported via his Facebook page that he’ll be taking an unplanned leave of absence from competition after sustaining a minor injury last weekend at Eschweiler CSI4* in Germany. O’Connor, who was gearing up for a busy month of May in Europe after completing a successful winter tour […]
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In little more than eight weeks, the 11-year-old Selle Francis gelding Seringat (Chef Rouge x Guillame Tell) became a shooting star on the North American winter circuit under rider Cian O’Connor. The Irishman grabbed headlines with Seringat on the weekend of February 26 – 28, 2017 in Ocala, Florida, USA when he jumped a flawless weekend as […]
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As last to go in the final minutes of Round Two at the $100,000 FEI Nations Cup CSIO4* in Ocala, Florida, all pressure lay solidly on Cian O’Connor’s shoulders. Walking through the ingate to the silence of the crowd, he knew that the difference of one rail would prevent Team Ireland from securing victory in the first, […]
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Ireland’s Cian O’Connor and Callisto rode to victory in the CSI5* 1.45m speed class in Qatar on Friday, November 4th, in a two horse race which saw home hero Bassem Hassan Mohammed miss out on the win by just tenths of a second. At the state-of-the-art AL SHAQAB, Friday evening’s action was the perfect prelude […]
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Cian O’Connor took an absolutely scintillating win on Sunday evening at the annual Horse of the Year CSI3* show in Birmingham, England, keeping an Irish/English rivalry alive and coming out triumphantly on top to be named the HOYS Leading Show Jumper of the Year. Better, O’Connor rode a horse he hadn’t competed for nearly 10 […]
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