Darragh Kenny

Darragh Kenny currently sits at number 8 on the Longines FEI World Rankings as the highest ranked Irish show jumping athlete.  Kenny began his career working with North Run Farm under the tutelage of Missy Clark and John Brennan. With their help, Kenny arrived to the top level of the sport, with top placings in prestigious grand prix classes up and down the East Coast. In September 2012, Kenny made the difficult decision to leave North Run Farm and form his own Oakland Ventures, LLC. Since its inception, Oakland Stables has become one of the most successful competition barns, offering high-performance sales horses and an elite training program.

Kenny represented Ireland in the 2014 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games™ , and captured a monumental victory as a member of the Irish show jumping team, winning the Aga Khan Trophy and the 2015 Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup™ Jumping CSIO5*.

In recent years, Kenny has continued to produce exceptional results internationally. He boasts an impressive resume of countless accolades with two prestigious 5* grand prix wins in the summer of 2019, which include the LGCT Grand Prix of Chantilly and the €500,000 Rolex Grand Prix in Knokke Hippique aboard Balou du Reventon.

Kenny helped to earn Olympic qualification for Ireland after jumping double-clear with Balou du Reventon to win team gold in the 2019 Longines FEI Jumping Nations Cup™ Final at CSIO Barcelona. He concluded a successful 2019 with impressive runner-up positions in the Longines FEI Jumping World Cup™ Verona CSI5*-W and the IJRC Rolex Top 10 Final aboard Romeo 88 while also finishing second in the €1.25 Million Longines Global Champions Tour Super Grand Prix Final with Balou du Reventon.

Kevin Babington

Kevin Babington is an Irish International show jumping rider and trainer. Originally from County Tipperary, Kevin has successfully taken part in many major competitions, including the Olympics, World Equestrian Games, and European Championships. Now based in the Pennsylvania and Florida in the United States, Kevin specializes in the training and sales of high quality competition horses.

Kevin has devoted a large part of his business to sales, where he likes to focus on buying and selling horses that he thinks will be ideal for the US market. He has several partners in Ireland, Germany, Great Britain and elsewhere, who are always keeping an eye out for suitable mounts. Though most horses are imported for immediate sale, Kevin also recognizes talent when he sees it, and will invest his time to develop horses further through training and competition before he markets them for sale. Kevin always has a strong inventory of sale horses suitable for both amateurs and professionals alike. It is through the sales business that he found quite a few of his top mounts, and campaigned them to the point of great success while finding valuable investors to help acquire them for himself. After a fall in September, 2019 left Kevin paralyzed, the show jumping world rallied around him with a collective strength that spoke to the deep respect that he has earned among his many colleagues and friends in equestrian sport. Kevin has since returned to coaching duties, and his condition continues to improve.

Hardin Towell

Hardin Towell comes from a very prominent equestrian family, with his parents operating Finally Farm in Camden, South Carolina, and his sister, Liza Boyd, dominating the hunter ring.

Beginning at age seven, Towell first competed in both the hunter and equitation rings. Having great success as a junior rider, he soon became a professional where he continued this success in the jumper ring.

In 2015, Towell qualified for the FEI World Cup™ Finals in Las Vegas and represented the United States aboard his winning mount, Lucifer. The next year, Towell continued with consistent results throughout the year in order to qualify once again for the FEI World Cup™ Finals in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Following Gothenburg in 2016, Towell added to his international success, stealing the show in the Shanghai leg of the Longines Global Champions Tour. Towell dominated a 15-rider jump-off to win the $377,500 CSI5* 1.55m class.

The next year, Towell returned to Shanghai with Kenny, where they claimed another victory for the Paris Panthers.

Towell continued to accumulate wins internationally in 2017, where he claimed another thrilling victory in the $87,000 GroupBy Big Ben Challenge at the CSI4*-W Royal Horse Show.