THE dual husband and wife combinations of Tim and Pat Martin and Keith and Dorothy Walsh had their best result at this year’s Dublin Horse Show in the two-year-old section where their Superior Choice was champion.

Unbeaten at the Royal Highland earlier this season, the brown gelding is by Emperor Augustus and was bred by the late Des Noctor out of the Coille Mor Hill mare Kemella Clover Diamond. In his lightweight class, and the championship, Superior Choice stood ahead of another son of Emperor Augustus, Corran Emperor.

This gelding, who is out of the Corran Ginger mare Cloughroe Wendy, was shown by Sean O’Neill for his father-in-law Robert Davis who bred the bay.

Last July, the pair combined to win the youngstock championship with another son of the popular thoroughbred stallion, Emperors Touch.

Dessie Gibson’s Dilshaan gelding Last Orders, who is out of a Porter Rhodes mare, topped the original line-up but was dropped to fifth on closer inspection by Jonathan Geake and Anthony Stroud.

There were only five entries in the medium/heavyweight class where the original first and second swopped places. This left Kinsale exhibitors John and Dora Tyner being presented with the red ribbon for Bullseye, their bay Orestus gelding out of a Cruising mare.

The Rountrees from Cootehill had to settle for second with their home-bred Natal gelding Killycloghan Supreme Time.