{"id":591645,"date":"2026-08-13T04:08:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T04:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/591645\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T04:08:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T04:08:20","slug":"usa-win-nations-cup-of-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/591645\/","title":{"rendered":"USA win Nations&#8217; Cup of Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/aga_khan.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                The United States of America team celebrate on the winners podium with the Aga Khan Trophy. [Inpho\/Dan Clohessy]<\/p>\n<p>              August 12, 2026<br \/>\n              by <a class=\"article-header-byline-author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishecho.com\/authors\/sean-creedon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sean Creedon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Friday last the United States team lifted the Aga Khan Trophy at the Dublin Horse Show at the RDS for the ninth time in their history as Ireland finished second in the \u00a0equestrian team competition. The Irish team battled with the Americans for a centenary edition of the Nations\u2019 Cup of Ireland. The competition brought back the original six teams that competed at the first edition in 1926, when Switzerland lifted the trophy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      Sign up to The Irish Echo Newsletter<\/p>\n<p class=\"module-newsletter-left-description\">Sign up today to get daily, up-to-date news and views from Irish America.<\/p>\n<p>Laura Kraut, aboard Baloutinue, led the U.S. team, under Chef d\u2019Equipe Robert Ridland, to the finish in front of the new Anglesea Stand now renamed the Laya Arena. The Irish team led the competition into the second round with zero faults but the USA, also with zero, and Britain, with two faults, didn\u2019t trail far behind. Daniel and Jordan Coyle both achieved clear runs across the two rounds while Shane Sweetman achieved a clear first round. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, it wasn\u2019t enough for an Irish team led by Chef d\u2019Equipe Jessica Kurten, that featured Cian O\u2019Connor\u2019s 20th Aga Khan performance. Kurten said she was absolutely thrilled with the team\u2019s performance despite the loss. Switzerland finished third, followed by Germany in fourth and Great Britain in fifth. Belgium were sixth, with last year\u2019s winners Netherlands in 7th and France finished last. Speaking after the presentation U.S. rider Laura Kraut said: \u2018\u2018I just love Dublin, I have to say the crowd here is the best. You guys are amazing.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" alt=\"\" height=\"100\" class=\"img-responsive center-block lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Gavins_Irish_Echo_banner_ad.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United States of America team celebrate on the winners podium with the Aga Khan Trophy. [Inpho\/Dan Clohessy]&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,20205,43],"class_list":["post-591645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irishecho","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591645","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=591645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}