Tipperary scored one win last Sunday in Cork when Aidan Ryan won the supreme ridden horse championship with Araglin at Bandon Show. By the late Irish Draught sire WRS Sunrich, the five-year-old grey saw off the challenge in the ODM Financial championship of another impressive contender in Denis Collins’ Drohan’s Horse (Kiltealy Silver). This winner of the four-year-old class was Brian Murphy, who partnered last year’s Dublin supreme champion Fort Knocks, and William Corrigan’s reserve champion choice.

Otherwise it was a clean sweep for Rebel County owners with PJ Lehane winning both the Clohamon Stud broodmare and Red Mills foal championship with his combination of P.J’s Dream (Lux Z) and her Womanizer filly foal.

A previous Dublin and two-time All Ireland champion in her youngstock days, the six-year-old is in foal to Munther, while her 18-year-old Big Sink Hope dam P.J’s Hope is in foal this time to Womanizer.

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John Roche’s recent Balmoral winners - Assagart Kingstead Fiona (Huntingfield Rebel) and her Lansdown filly foal - also recorded a similar double in the Irish Draught section. Broodmare judge Walter Kent, who stands Lansdown, opted to step out of the ring for those relevant classes. James Murphy, his stand-in, also judged the young horse section with Andrew Gardiner where the Lehane winning streak continued. This time it was Seamus who won the Permanent TSB supreme championship with his Ballard Peaches & Cream on her show ring debut. This Kings Master three-year-old was bred in Dunmanway by Stephen McCarthy and is out of Lehane’s Ballard Jewel, the 2009 All Ireland filly foal champion. Interestingly, Siobhan O’Brien’s reserve champion, a Diamond Discovery two-year-old filly, is also out the same Ghareeb dam.

John Dinneen won the supreme pony championship, with his own Breeneybeg Lucy. Also homebred, the Chinook Limelight yearling filly was the inaugural winner of the Irish Horse Gateway foal championship last autumn for her owner, who manages Barrett Agri store in Bantry.

Standing reserve was Jenny O’Driscoll’s mini pony champion Glenard Bumble Bee (Amesbury Bumble Bee).