ROBERT Walker dominated the supreme hunter championship of last week’s Agria Royal International Horse Show on two seven-year-old Irish Sport Horse geldings owned by Jill Day.

On the Thursday, Walker and Day first won the middleweight title with the Michael Callery-bred bay Full Cry (Balou du Rouet - Greenacres Quality, by OBOS Quality 004), who was purchased from Dessie Gibson as a two-year-old.

They then claimed the heavyweight championship with the grey IJ Countryman (Lionwood Kinsales Lad - Clonhaston Lilly, by Kings Master), who was purchased from breeder Kieran Ryan at the 2023 Dublin Horse Show, where he was reserve heavyweight champion.

The supreme was judged by Judy Bradwell (conformation) and the three ride judges, Sophie Buckley, Rosemary Connors and Sir Mark Todd, who had the Walker-ridden Full Cry called forward as supreme hunter champion, with the Sarah Walker-partnered IJ Countryman standing reserve.

Also on Thursday, Day’s 11-year-old ISH gelding MHS Morning Master (Quidam Junior I - MHS Cavaliers Daughter, by Cavalier Royale), who was bred by Sinead Brennan, finished second in the ladies’ hunter championship.

Among the many CapallÓir-registered winners over the five days was the James Hoare-bred gelding Dowdstown Purple (Crosstown Dancer - Dowdstown Jane, by Silver Granite). The 11-year-old grey won the heavyweight amateur hunter championship on the Friday under his owner Jono Fryer who, the following day, partnered him to victory in the Irish Draught ridden championship.

In the section’s supreme championship, Fryer and Dowdstown Purple took the title ahead of the Simon Reynolds-ridden part-bred championship winner My Diamond Solitaire (Balief Guy - Diamonds Joy, by Bright Diamond), a nine-year-old ISH gelding bred by Karen King.

In Friday’s small hunter amateur championship, Britain’s Tara Robinson claimed the title on the Hayley Togher-bred seven-year-old ISH gelding Mr Cummins (Gallant Cavalier - Salsa Salsa, by Tabasco van Erpekom), while Co Limerick’s Sophie Cusack finished sixth on her mother Oorla’s 15-year-old black gelding Tiger Eye, who holds two engagements in next week’s Gallagher Dublin Horse Show. Irish-breds dominated Friday’s heavyweight working hunter championship, where the final line-up was headed by Adam Taylor on the Judith Sossick-bred eight-year-old gelding Loughview Verdis Dream (Verdi - Loughview La La, by Limmerick), ahead of the 11-year-old OBOS Quality 004 gelding Mulberry Lane and the 16-year-old Classic Vision gelding, MJM Laszlo.