AS usual, two Masterclasses for young event horses were held during the Camphire International Horse Trials.

The five-year-old class was won by Camilla Speirs riding BT Angelo who, at Tattersalls the previous weekend, had qualified in third place for the Dubarry Burghley young event horse final. The good-looking son of Indoctro is owned by the rider’s mother Bridget in partnership with fellow Co Kildare resident Orla O’Neill.

Connections purchased BT Angelo about four months ago from his breeder Kate Jarvey who was one of the dressage scribes for the event. He is out of the Irish Sport Horse mare Decision Day, dam previously of the international two-star eventer Day By Day (by Jumbo) who is now breeding for Jarvey.

Decision Day was by the thoroughbred Lafontaine who sired the 2000 Grand National winner Papillon and the great Cheltenham and Punchestown cross-country race specialist Spot Thedifference, among others.

Although under a different format and with different judges, Kilkenny-based British international Nicky Roncoroni followed up her win in the four-year-old Tattersalls Burghley qualifier with Sixmilewater. On this occasion, the winner’s breeder was present to see him win.

Making a very rare appearance at an event, and for the first time at Camphire, was show jumper Denis O’Riordan who, with his sister Julia, runs a riding school and breeds horses and ponies (specialising in 148cms jumpers) at Sixmilewater, Whitechurch, Co Cork.

Roncoroni’s winner, a gelded son of OBOS Quality 004 who she purchased privately from O’Riordan last year, is out of the deceased Buster King mare Kelseys Kingdom.

“I nearly cried when she died three months ago as I loved that mare,” said O’Riordan.

“Luckily enough I have a five-year-old full-sister to Sixmilewater that I’m starting to do a small bit with now and I think she could be very good, and a yearling full-brother.”