Coyle’s five-star victory an Olympian boost

Derry athlete wins Spruce Meadows speed class on Farrel Daniel Coyle returns to Europe to step up his preparations for the Paris Olympic Games in buoyant form after a tremendous year and the Derry native illustrated his status as one of the top show jumping pilots in the world once more by claiming a five-star victory at the prestigious Spruce Meadows Rolex National meeting in Canada overnight with Dutch Warmblood gelding, Farrel. Coyle and the 14-year-old mare Legacy, on which he won back-to-back World Cups in January, have been selected by Horse Sport Ireland High Performance Show Jumping Director, Michael Blake as part of the Underwriting Exchange Irish Show Jumping team for Paris along with Shane Sweetnam on the Irish Sport Horse James Kann Cruz and Cian O’Connor with Maurice. The Ardmore athlete has considerable depth at his disposal however, as evidenced by Farrel streaking to an emphatic victory in […]