Sextet of five-star triumphs in Irish hegemony

Coyle doubles up for third straight week, as Wachman, Sweetnam, Swail and Kenny also score at highest level The Whispers had a number of hits in the 1960s, ‘70s and ‘80s. And The Beat Goes On was one of their biggest, in 1979, and it could easily be used on an advertising blurb representing the fortunes of Irish show jumping right now. The LA vocal group specialised in soul and there is an ocean of that around the Green Jacketed scene at present, as the Irish manage to not just match the successes of heretofore, but improve upon them. This week will take surpassing though, as apart from the five-star Barrière Nations Cup victory of the Underwriting Exchange Irish Show Jumping Team at La Baule on Friday, secured by Bertram Allen, Seamus Hughes Kennedy, Tom Wachman and Cian O’Connor, there were six individual five-star triumphs by five athletes from these […]