By Margie McLoone

THE well-marked and well-named piebald gelding Arthur Guinness added to the list of winners from Kieran and Mairead Ryan’s Cabragh Lodge yard at this year’s show when landing Friday’s Top Line Murtaghs coloured horse class.

Ridden by P.J. Casey, who owned him briefly at one stage, the seven-year-old always topped David Machin’s line-up.

He has that bit of quality which comes from his thoroughbred dam Native Friend, an unraced daughter of Darnay, and travels well across the country.

Sold at Dublin to an English customer, Arthur Guinness is by the piebald stallion Apache Warrior who also brings thoroughbred blood into the pedigree as he is a son of Ard Allez Cat.

Lorraine Patton moved up from fourth to finish second with Rosemary Hollywood’s homebred Killeshin Bertie who featured in this paper’s Pony Tales column after Tattersalls show.

The seven-year-old piebald gelding is by the tri-coloured stallion Crossdrum Spurs out of a Farrington Spondulicks dam. Killeshin Bertie was among the small group of horses at Dublin who wasn’t listed with a ‘For Sale’ sign during the five days of the show.