One nice feature of this summer’s shows is to see great horsemen recalled. This was a feature at Gorey Show recently, with the Tommy Brennan traditional championship, and again last Saturday at a sunny Carnew Show, when the late Neville Lazenby was remembered with the presentation of a new memorial trophy for the champion broodmare.

Fittingly, it was won by Derry Rothwell, whose Limmerick mare Greenhall Indicator was judge Timmy Wilson’s champion choice. Neville, who passed away last year, owned the Dublin young horse champion Sultan and was a familiar sight at the horse rings for many years, including during his wife Dorothea’s two-year historic term as the Irish Shows Association’s first lady president.

Coincidentally, namesake Philip Lazenby’s Power Blade filly, Ahare Paris Blade, had a good day in the young horse classes, where the scopey two-year-old chestnut was Olivia Hazelett’s choice, going on to be named overall champion.

Donal Goland’s yearling champion by his own Rebel Mountain was the reserve.

Having recently lost her other good mare Corrib Eva, Margaret Jeffares’s brought her other prolific servant Debbies Clover (Farney Clover) to Carnew, where her latest Emperor Augustus filly foal won the foal championship.

Carnew attracted several Dublin-bound entries among its well-filled ridden horse classes, where Aidan Ryan selected Angus McDonnell’s Party Time (Flagmount King) as his champion.

Chloe Lacey and Jessica Murphy won the show hunter and working hunter pony titles, while the Killinick Whites won the new inter-hunt steeplechase.

Another new addition was young show secretary Noelle Keogh, who is a great asset to this vibrant committee.