{"id":587998,"date":"2026-08-09T13:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/587998\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T13:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:58:10","slug":"amy-huberman-leads-the-charge-at-the-dublin-horse-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/587998\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy Huberman leads the charge at the Dublin Horse Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amy Huberman led the charge at the <a href=\"https:\/\/evoke.ie\/2026\/08\/08\/entertainment\/celebrity\/pippa-oconnor-cheer-brother\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dublin Horse Show<\/a> on Saturday, as the actress brought her mum to watch the Defender Puissance. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, the funnywoman got up to some antics during her time in the RDS, sharing gas snaps on social media. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amy and her mum, Sandra, posed behind a picture of a horse and a showjumper, with the head cut out. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/SnapInsta-Ai_byrufp2t6saol4wjalu3va.jpg\" alt=\"Amy Huberman and her mum Sandra at the Dublin Horse Show. Pic: Amy Huberman\/Instagram\" class=\"wp-image-2181059\"  \/>Amy Huberman and her mum Sandra at the Dublin Horse Show. Pic: Amy Huberman\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sandra was up first, with Amy joking that it is &#8216;kinda chic for your mum to be a jockey for four seconds.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, the Finding Joy star had to have a turn. &#8216;And then follow in her footsteps. Thank you for believing in me mama,&#8217; she penned.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/SnapInsta-Ai_206w54j2cb2ihi4vbvwh30w.jpg\" alt=\"Amy Huberman and her mum Sandra at the Dublin Horse Show. Pic: Amy Huberman\/Instagram\" class=\"wp-image-2181060\"  \/>Amy Huberman and her mum Sandra at the Dublin Horse Show. Pic: Amy Huberman\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amy was also joined by her husband, Brian O&#8217;Driscoll, who was giving a talk on the day. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jacqui Hurley also took a much deserved weekend off after the All-Ireland madness to watch the <a href=\"https:\/\/extra.ie\/2025\/08\/07\/lifestyle\/demure-style-wins-best-dressed-at-dublin-horse-show\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/extra.ie\/2025\/08\/07\/lifestyle\/demure-style-wins-best-dressed-at-dublin-horse-show\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">showjumping<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/SnapInsta-Ai_hwbkkv8d7ztp79ggkuy68f.jpg\" alt=\"Jacqui Hurley at the Dublin Horse Show. Pic: Jacqui Hurley\/Instagram\" class=\"wp-image-2181061\"  \/>Jacqui Hurley at the Dublin Horse Show. Pic: Jacqui Hurley\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The RT\u00c9 sports presenter, who hosts Up For The Match alongside D\u00e1ith\u00ed \u00d3 S\u00e9 and Louise Cantillon, looked stylish in a pink and orange sundress at the event. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Avid-showjumper Ali Keating also made an appearance at the Puissance, having attended every day since the Dublin Horse Show kicked off in the RDS.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/SnapInsta-Ai_qkgfehtrs8qwulpdvm37n.jpg\" alt=\"Ali Keating at the Dublin Horse Show. Pic: Ali Keating\/Instagram\" class=\"wp-image-2181062\"  \/>Ali Keating at the Dublin Horse Show. Pic: Ali Keating\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ali, who is the youngest child of Yvonne Connolly and Ronan Keating, showed off her impressive stack of silver bracelets as she sat in the arena on the day. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was Jordan Coyle and Rachel Proudley who won big on the day. The pair both failed to clear the 2.25m wall, but won after Longford\u2019s Derek McCoppin and Explosief\u2019s Legacy posted eight faults in the final jump-off.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/3534351.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2181069\"  \/>8 August 2026; Rachel Proudley of Great Britain competes on Easy Boy de Laubry Z, wearing a Mayo jersey, in the Defender Puissance during day four of the Gallagher Dublin Horse Show at the RDS in Dublin. Photo by Paul Phelan\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a big day for veteran showjumper Jordan, who was sending his cherished 17-year-old horse Eristov into retirement in Derry. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">21-year-old Rachel appeared thrilled as she won the Defender Puissance for a second year running with her horse, Easyboy de Laubry Z. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The English woman sent the crowd wild as she sported a Mayo jersey during the competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amy Huberman led the charge at the Dublin Horse Show on Saturday, as the actress brought her mum&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-587998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}