TUFFA Boots have come in as sponsor for the cob section at next week’s Dublin Horse Show where the first of the three classes to be judged by Britain’s Joli Smith and Ted Chalmers gets underway in Ring 1 early on Thursday afternoon.

Most won’t have a recorded pedigree but a few will and that latter group includes the Balmoral champion, Highview Forthriver, who is produced for Newtownards owner Hilary Gibson by Jamie Smyth and Ryan Anderson. The lightweight six-year-old grey Irish Sport Horse gelding is by the Irish Draught stallion King Alton.

Co Galway’s Grace Maxwell Murphy and her husband William McMahon have been enjoying an excellent season to date across all showing codes and here will be represented by the four-year-old heavyweight Gleann Rua Yellowstone, a dun gelding by the ID stallion Liosderg Silver Pride who was ridden horse champion at Clonmel.

The Balmoral reserve, Elaine Buller’s seven-year-old dun gelding Randalstown Rigby, who doesn’t have a recorded pedigree, will be on a retrieval mission having claimed the title here in 2023 when owned by cob specialist Sam McAteer.