• PJ Casey, based at Kieran and Mairead Ryan’s Cabragh Lodge, was the week’s leading rider in the show rings. Among the team’s winners were the small hunter champion Heartbeat (Le One), bred by John Giblin in Swinford, and coloured horse champion Arthur Guinness (Apache Warrior), bred near Laytown by Noel Glennon.

• Longtime friends on the showing circuit Robert Hyde and Lyndsey O’Brien ended up as Sportman hunter champion and reserve with The Publisher (Buster King) and Mr Shakespeare (Olympic Lux).

• A popular thoroughbred showcase is the Racehorse to Riding Horse class. This was won for a second successive year by Joanne Quirke on board the Goat Racing Syndicate’s handsome Forpadydeplasterer (Moscow Society). Philippa Baird’s Amestecos (Presenting) finished second.

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• This year’s Broodmare Futurity class winner Dilona Blue (Mr Blue), owned by Jerry Sweetnam and Spy Coast Farm, has big footsteps to follow as Lanaken champion Arraghbeg Clover won this last year. Aimed at identifying show jumping broodmares, Jens Meyer and Mark Shaw selected Stephen McCarthy’s HVL Symphony (Orestus) as Sunday’s runner-up.

• The reinstated side-saddle classes attracted a large ringside audience. Cheryl Cusack’s Whitfield Jack Of Hearts (Ricardo Z) won the senior class and Zara Nelson took both the red rosette and Hanson trophy, presented to the junior winner, on board Millridge Buachaill Bui (Templebready Fear Bui) in the junior division.

• Lesley-Anne Duke’s Brookfields Showdown (Amiro M) won the riding horse championship with Deirdre Kane’s Mighty Clever (Ricardo Z) in reserve.

• Northern exhibitors dominated the cob championship with Audrey Smyth’s Sock-Et-Set taking the tricolour ahead of Samuel McAteer’s Randalstown Designer Stubble.

• Justine Fay’s Colorado won another show hunter pony tricolour with Theresa Marnane’s consistent winner this season Wyndham Limelight (Wyndham Crackerjack) in reserve. Sadbh Springate clinched the working hunter pony title on board Mullybrannon Diamond (Dario) and Ann Gilroy’s purebred Connemara Hill Storm (Lochinvar) was reserve.

• Connemara champions on Wednesday included Bernie Whyte’s performance hunter Ardagh Bobby (Glenayre Mystical Bobby). Phyllis Jones’s Rocky Cashel (Currachmore Cashel) took the reserve spot.

• The ridden Connemara title and reserve went to Tom Murray’s French-bred Plume De Kezeg (Janus) and Kirstin McDonagh’s Carracanada River (Templebready Fear Bui) respectively. Both stallions had also taken part in the new Connemara stallion parade at the Horse Show.

• Sunday morning’s junior equitation championship was won by Caoimhe Bogue on board Red Hill Lad with Jennifer Torrens in reserve on Ardfry Baileys.

• Monaghan won the Pony Club games final on Sunday afternoon, the Killinick branch brought their winning musical ride display at the recent Pony Club festival to Dublin and Irish junior eventing team member Cathal Daniels won the members combined training on Margaret Hynes’s Barnaboy Freeman (Cottage Fire). Rachel Rowe won the intermediate combined training final on her own The Artists Apprentice (The Artist).

• Ellie McDonnell had a back-to-back win in the first ridden class with the purebred Welsh pony Brynoffa Jonquil and the youngest show class winner at Dublin this year was Ciara O’Connor on board the leadrein winner Linksbury Goldilocks.

• Two Irish-bred ambassadors received presentations from the Traditional Irish Horse Association at Dublin last week. Katie Jerram, who has produced numerous traditional Irish-bred winners, including Dunbeacon and Bryan Maguire, the breeder of Catherine Witt’s Rolex Kentucky winner Bay My Hero, were presented with their awards by HSI chairman Prof Pat Wall.