FIONA Goor didn’t just attend last Sunday’s Irish Pony Society annual hunter pony show at Barnadown as a mother and owner but she was also pressed into service as a judge in Ring 3 along with Rosaleen Barry (phase 2).

The pair’s show hunter champion was the very smart novice class winner, Redinagh Wild Card, a four-year-old Irish Sport Horse gelding ridden by Aoibhinn Ruane for George Chapman. Bred at the family’s Redinagh Stud in Co Wexford by Seamus Leacy junior, the bay is by Cavalier Land out of Crissaun Velvet (by Maltstriker).

Up from Co Cork, Amber Lane claimed the reserve slot on board the 133cm class winner, Jane Field’s 17-year-old home-bred skewbald mare Creganna Dancer (by Moores Clover).

Other champions to be crowned in Ring 3 included the Aidan Jones-bred Cityview Fuinnseoig who, having won the Connemara ridden class for riders over 16 under Isla Gornik, claimed the Connemara/Mountain and Moorland title. The eight-year-old grey mare is by Killacloran Fuinnseoig out of Glenmore Glory Be (by Moy Hazy Cove).

Millie Toomey won Sunday’s mini championship on her mother Marianne Power’s Rookery Haribo, the British-bred 11-year-old Uphill James Fox gelding with whom she has had so much success this year. On Sunday, this combination first won the open show hunter lead rein while the winners of the working hunter lead rein class, C.J. Greene and Aine Geoghegan’s eight-year-old Islyn Bond gelding Holthall Gladiator stood reserve.

Judy O’Donnell won the starter stakes championship on board her mother Patricia’s open working hunter class winner, Cluainin Spring Johnson.

This nine-year-old Connemara mare by Robe Johnson was bred in Co Leitrim by Joe Cleary out of Spring Rose Marie (by Thunderball). Lennan Moloney finished reserve on the open show hunter class winner Glynsylen Magellan, a 14-year-old piebald gelding by Russetwood Elation who was bred in Britain by Penny Hard.