MARK Cleary’s Carrickrock Rua won the four-year-old hunter class at Newcastlewest Show last weekend, where the judges were Aubrey Chapman and Charolette Hurst.

Carrickrock Rua went on to stand reserve champion of the show, where Emily Collins and Mousiven Vitton won the middleweight/heavyweight division and William Goldie’s Rehy Archer took the top spot in the lightweight class.

The supreme champion title was once again awarded to Pat and Elizabeth Ahern’s Sonny Bill, ridden by Jo Jones, who claimed the ridden horse championship after winning the small hunter class.

The IPS classes at the Limerick show were very well attended and course builder John Fitton prepared a working hunter course to test riders en route to the RDS.

With more than 60 classes and championships, the IPS supreme championship was hotly contested.

The judges took a great interest in all ponies, but one pony stood out from all the rest. That was the mini working hunter and mini mountain and moorland champion, Kenilwood Monarch, ridden by Co Tipperary rider Anna Rose Scott. The reserve supreme title went to local boy Nathan Ruttle’s Treowen Ranger.

In the young horse classes, Josephine Casey’s three-year-old Miley by Cloughlea Kris was named champion and Rebecca Monahan’s Notamarko by Soviet Heather stood reserve.

The Horse Sport Ireland sport horse foal championship qualifier was judged by Diane Gibson and George Chapman, who saw some fine foals put before them.

Full results of this class are carried in the results pages A76-81.

In the three-year-old loose jumping class, the competition was of a very high standard and there were three places for the Young Irelander class in Millstreet on offer. Judges Tim Beecher and Willie McDonnell Snr put them through their paces and it was Michael and Rachael Lyons’ Kilmastulla Marcellus Q who came out on top.