Showing snippets

Linda Murphy won both the opening day’s Irish Draught performance championship on Gortfree Lakeside Lad and Sunday evening’s working hunter championship with Castle Howard Romeo. It was also another double for the Kylemore Stud stallion team with the homebred Romeo by Womanizer and the supreme hunter champion by his stable companion Watermill Swatch. Standing reserve was Mike and Ado Moran’s O.B.O.S Quality five-year-old Loughmogue Miracle Star.

The ex-Willie Mullins trained Un Atout won the Racehorse to Riding Horse class for Alison Clancy with another French-bred in Joanne Quirke’s Rubi Light placed second.

In another National Hunt link, Trevor Horgan bred this year’s riding horse champion Queen’s Master, by Kings Master. The Anne Byrne-owned mare stood champion ahead of the thoroughbred Dawn Chorus, owned by Patrice Dorney.

Alison Crozier’s Mastermind, by Chipolini VM Z was this year’s small hunter champion ahead of Glenn Knipe’s pure-bred Irish Draught Farmhill Grange Of Donard in reserve.

This year’s maxi cob winner, Pat Loughlin and Pearl O’Rourke’s The Peaky Blinder, by Rockrimmon Silver Diamond, was the reserve cob champion to Samuel McAteer’s Randlestown Raffles.

This year’s side-saddle class winners were Rachel Smyth on Vantage Point and Sunday’s intermediate division was won by Robyn Catterall on another 2016 Horse Show champion, Carnsdale Irish Times.

Joanne and Patrice Dorney’s True Colours and Aine O’Loughlin’s Heatherville Moss were coloured champions.

Ponies

Hannah Mackey won the first ridden class with Brynoffa Jonquil. Laura O’Driscoll won the show pony lead rein division on Glenard Bumble Bee and Charlotte Goor won the hunter pony section on Ardfry Rahara.

Finn O’Hara was this year’s equitation champion with Coomey’s Boy.

Sadhbh Springate took the working hunter title with Mullybrannon Diamond ahead of Jodie Creighton on the purebred Connemara Charleville Farah. Rachel Moore won the show hunter championship with Sean McKenna’s find Birchill Casanova. Another purebred Connemara, Finola Hennessy’s Slieve Bloom Barney, with her son Peter on board, took reserve.

Megan Telford-Kelly won the pony club intermediate combined training championship on Aughabeg Dun Boy, while Ailish Osborne won the Members division on Ferregana.

The Shillelagh pony club were this year’s mounted games champions ahead of Laois and Monaghan.