The youngest winners of the week were on Saturday when Nathan Ruttle (hunter pony leadrein), Laura O’Driscoll (showpony leadrein) and Amelia O’Halloran (first ridden) won on Treowen Ranger, Glenard Bumble Bee and Fielden Chrys-O-Lite.

Fiona O’Dwyer’s Kings Master mare Knocklucas Chloe was this year’s working hunter pony champion with Susie Doyle on board again. Reserve went to another versatile performer in Gillian Creighton’s Derrygimbla Atlantic Storm (Coral Dun) ridden by Jodie Creighton.

Michael Lewis’s Carnsdale Irish Times (Murphys Irish Diamond) was another to score a Balmoral-Dublin double when the Robyn Catterall-partnered bay won the show hunter pony championship. Rebecca O’Neill’s Giants Causeway (Young Edmond) second in the same strong intermediate class, stood reserve.

ADVERTISEMENT

It was an all-girls double in this year’s equitation championship won by Clara Daly and Pataire Crawford as reserve.

PJ Ryan’s four-year-old mare Abby V Overis Z (Arko III) is this year’s Broodmare Futurity champion. Reserve champion in this Eric Levallois and Henrik Klatte-judged final was another four-year-old Derrycastle Sensation, owned by Nigel Kenny.

Noel Ruane won the leading breeder prize awarded for points earned in the three-year-old loose performance and young horse show jumping championships.