NEARLY 200 riders, representing 51 clubs affiliated to the Association of Irish Riding Clubs, are due to compete in tomorrow’s Connolly’s Red Mills national show jumping championships in Mullingar.

The Round 1 action in the championship classes gets underway way at 9.20am in Sand 1 where Shane Brooks is the course designer while the judges will be Wilson Porter and Anne Jones. The classes start at RC110 and RC120 level, dropping down throughout the day to RC70 level.

Rounds 2 (and 3 if required) will be staged over Seamus Casey-designed tracks in the International Sand arena where Margaret Hynes and Gay Parkinson are scheduled to judge. Non-championship Derby and accumulator classes will run throughout the day in Sand 2 and the International grass arena.

This is the 16th year of title sponsorship of the championships by Connolly’s Red Mills, whose subsidiary companies, Foran Equine and Carr & Day & Martin, will also have a high-profile presence at Mullingar.

Bursary

Treo Eile will present a training bursary, and a rug, to the riders of the highest-placed thoroughbred horses in all five of the championships.

Looking further ahead, the draw has been made for the AIRC team show jumping championships which will take place in Simmonscourt on Sunday, August 10th, the final day of the 2025 Dublin Horse Show.

Craig Ennis, who will get the action under way on board his Irish Sport Horse gelding Meko, rides for Killossery and he will be followed by the first riders for Greenhills, Nephin, the 2023 winners Carrickmines, Annaharvey, Warrington, Knocknamana Country, Greenvalley and Boru’s.