ANOTHER of Julian White’s assignments at last week’s Dublin Horse Show was to judge the coloured horse class on Friday afternoon in Ring 1 where conformation was assessed by Hopper Cavendish.

Their winner, who moved up from third, was Sharon and Brian Hallahan’s six-year-old skewbald mare SBS Touch Of Colour who is very much the product of home breeding being by their piebald SBS Da Vinci out of the skewbald SBS Technicolour Touch, a 17.1hh mare by Touchdown.

SBS Touch Of Colour did nothing as a four-year-old but won twice and finished second three times from five outings last season. Twice a winner of the coloured championship at Cork (where she won both in hand and under saddle for the past two years), the mare finished second last July at Tattersalls to the subsequent RDS winner, Kit N Kaboodle, which prompted the Hallahans to enter their charge for the Dublin Horse Show this year.

On Friday, she stood ahead of the 12-year-old skewbald mare Chillout Abbey (by Derrymore Lad) who was ridden by her Co Kildare owner, Claire Lawlor.

“You have to give Sharon all the credit,” said Brian Hallahan when discussing this win for their Aglish yard where the couple are assisted by their children, Isabelle (6) and Peter (4). “She does all the work with the mare and takes her on fun rides. She got some coaching this season from Vincent Phelan. We sold a three-year-old full-brother to this mare but have retained her yearling full-sister.”