THE three-year-old Ballykelly Eva, home-bred by her owner Margaret Jeffares, had a lot to live up to on her return to the Stena Line Dublin Horse Show last week.

Not only was the OBOS Quality 004 filly a class winner here last year but her dam, Corrib Eva (by Salluceva), and grandam, Corrib Countess (by Triggerero), were distaff champions in 2006 and 1992.

Ballykelly Eva’s name was added to the list of winners on the Owen Ryan cup following her success in the fillies’ championship last Friday.

Jeffares won one of the turn-out awards generously sponsored in each of the young horse classes by The Meadows EC.

The three class winning fillies were all quite different and David Walters and Hamish Alexander chose as their reserve the yearling Not A Bother.

The black daughter of Lancelot was yet another winner bred in Co Clare, in this instance by Paddy Donnellan out of a Warcraft mare, but, in contrast to others, she was also shown by a Banner County exhibitor, Rebecca Monahan.

Swinford native Thomas Conlon, who works in Dublin and lives quite close to the RDS showgrounds, was delighted to win the two-year-old fillies’ class with the home-bred Lisbrogan Gold. The tall chesnut is by Leprince des Bois out of the British Sport Horse mare Trelissick (by Hand In Glove).