ALTHOUGH he didn’t have the great results of last year, P.J. Casey was crowned leading rider in the showing section of the Dublin Horse Show for the fourth time on Sunday.

One of his wins came in Friday’s Topline Murtaghs coloured horse class which he claimed on Joanne and Patrice Dorney’s striking six-year-old skewbald gelding True Colours. Disappointingly for those interested in the buying the horse, who had won at Gorey, he had been sold in advance of the show to go hunting in the United States.

True Colours, who was purchased privately in Leitrim from Gerry Hackett, was bred in Co Cavan by Sean McGahern. He is by the coloured stallion Enaghan Cavalier Clover out of the unraced Revoque mare Gowna Crystal.

Like all of the Casey horses, True Colours was very lightly shown but did have some schooling sessions at the National Horse Sport Arena.

Aine O’Loughlin finished second on her 11-year-skewbald gelding Heatherville Moss who was bred in Dunmore East by Brian Cunningham but has no sire recorded. He too is out of a thoroughbred mare in his instance a daughter of Persian Mews.