Welcome to the new Irish Draught Horse Society website

Office Telephone : 08452 300 399 (Mon - Fri 11am - 2pm)
Outside of these times all calls will be diverted to an answerphone. Please note that due to the high volume of calls, it may be some time before you receive a response.

If you are ringing the Office to request a form, please note that these are all available online in
Downloads/Office Forms - here

The Irish Draught Horse Society of Great Britain would like to apologise to all its members and friends who have experienced difficulty in contacting the office over the past few weeks.
Trustees have taken urgent steps to address the problems and as part of this strategy, Annie Holbeche has been asked to help out with passports on a contract basis, and Trustees are helping to answer telephone enquiries. Further measures are being taken to redistribute tasks and members will be kept informed.

Please continue to send passports to the office, so that other tasks associated with registration can be carried out.
If there are continuing problems in communication, please contact our Chairman, Gaynor Mitchell, on 0790 951 7578.

Thank you for your patience and cooperation.

JUDGES ASSESSMENT DAY - TUESDAY 21 OCTOBER 2008
SOLIHULL RIDING CLUB - From 9.00 am

This is a reminder to all potential applicants who wish to be assessed for inclusion on the Conformation, Ride or Perfomance Judges Panels that applications for the Judges Assessment Day MUST be in the Office by 3rd October 2008.
Click here for full details and to download application forms.

HORSES WANTED
We need several horses to use on the assessment day, so if anyone could bring their horse(s) along it would be very much appreciated. Participants would have an interesting day out with the opportunity to learn a thing or two. If you are interested, please ring Sue Tutcher on 07985 210133.

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YEAR BOOK 2009

Photographs and articles of interest are already being collated for the 2009 Year Book.

This year, Louise Morton will be joining the Year Book team, bringing her knowledge and experience of the Sport Horse and the showing and competition world.

If anyone has successes in the show ring or in the competition field this summer, we want to know. We particularly need good, sharp, colour photographs to illustrate the Year Book and of course we are always on the look out for that extra special photograph for the front cover. We are considering featuring the background of some of the most influential stallions over the years, with photographs, breeding details and a potted history of their achievements.

If anyone has any archive information or photographs of any of these grand old lines, particularly those with a competition background or successful competition offspring, please contact Norma Grubb, (01845 567005) or Louise Morton, (01283 716573), or e-mail: yearbookATidhsgb.com

Any articles submitted that are not included in the Year Book will be sent to the Newsletter Editor for consideration to be included in future Newsletters.

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PRESS RELEASE dated 11 JULY 2008 from Irish Draught Horse Society (GB)

*** JOY AT HOYS FOR ENID AND ABBI ***

There was much celebration yesterday, Thursday 9th October, when our own Enid Lord and her home bred mare, Ballineen Glen Abbess, made history in the Cuddy Final at the 60th Diamond Jubilee Horse of the Year Show at the NEC, Birmingham ...... full story click here