REGULAR show jumping contributor to Irish Horse World and SJI coach, Dale Adams, has won the 2025 Dungar Quality Oats Cash Prize for NH Breeders. Tadhg O’Leary of Dungar Quality Oats presented the cash prize of €2,500 to Dale and her family at their home farm in Wexford recently.

For the second year running, this prize was developed in recognition of the important contribution that Irish National Hunt Breeders make to the racing industry.

Adams bred the impressive four-year-old Clondaw Park who sold for £320,000 (€382,160) at Tattersalls Cheltenham March Festival sale for consignor Catriona Goff.

The Walk in the Park (IRE) filly, out of Zamani (Teofilo (IRE)) had an eye-catching debut win at Lisronagh in February for trainer Mick Goff. She was subsequently sold at Tattersalls to Ed Bailey for Harry Derham fetching a joint top lot price for that day.

The Adams family have a long history with horses with Dale’s husband, Gary, a practicing vet, having particular success with breeding thoroughbreds. Gary bred Fedneys Park, also by Walk in the Park (IRE), out of his Presenting (IRE) mare Fedney Hill. When it comes to breeding point-to-point winners, the Adams’ are a formidable team.

A busy household, the Adams’ daughters Maisie and Lauren are following their parents winning ways as flourishing young riders on the international show jumping circuit.

The prize was open to any breeder of an Irish-bred four or five-year-old mare that had ran in a maiden point-to-point in Ireland between October 2024 and May 2025 and were subsequently sold in one of a number of identified point-to-point sales.