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A MeMoIr of My fATher
By ferGAl rInGroSe
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new book on a true legend of Irish show jumping is just published.
In 1961 Army rider Capt Billy Ringrose won the Grand Prix in Nice and
then the Grand Prix in Rome. In his riding career Capt Ringrose won
six individual international show jumping Grand Prix and seven Nations Cup
team events – including being part of the first mixed army-civilian Irish team to win the Aga
Khan Cup in 1963.
Colonel Ringrose later became CO of the Army Equitation School and Chef d'Equipe of the
Irish team. Colonel Ringrose's son Fergal has written and published a 280-page memoir of his
father's life and equestrian career, including nearly 80 images taking the reader back in time
to his days as a rider on the international circuit in the 50s/60s.
Over the course of over a year Fergal sat down with his parents and recorded a series of
conversations. He also spoke to other equestrians – Ned Campion, Dermot Forde, Sneezy Foster, John
Ledingham, Brian MacSweeney and Des Ringrose – to help complete the story of one of the greats of
Irish show jumping: his father, Colonel
Billy Ringrose.
The book is self-published by the author and is only available at www.billyringrose.ie priced €15.00.
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