SADHBH O’Connor’s winning streak continued at the Northern Ireland Festival in Cavan where, last Sunday evening, the Co Kildare rider/producer landed the Mountain and Moorland ridden supreme championship on her mother Aoife’s Doonreaghan Rob, winner earlier of the ridden Connemara title.

Laura Mulqueen finished reserve supreme with her family’s open M&M ridden champion, the seven-year-old Fell gelding Birkettbank Fergie, a son of Lunesdale Black Ice II, with Lara Field standing first reserve on her mother Marjorie Hardiman’s home-bred Connemara working hunter champion, Creganna Kerfuffle, an 11-year-old Silver Shadow mare.

“We tried to buy ‘Robin’ as a foal at Clifden five years ago but he just went for too much,” reported O’Connor. “However, last September we spotted him on DoneDeal and went to see him straight away! He won at his first show, which was a Balmoral qualifier in Hazeldene Farm, and then an ISA four and five-year-old ridden qualifier before heading to NIF. He’s now heading to Balmoral.”

Bred in Co Galway by Noel Nee, Doonreaghan Rob is by Glencarrig Knight out of the Coosheen Stormboy mare Doonreaghan Milly.