THE Cheval Riding Club grounds in north Co Dublin was the venue last Saturday for an open-to-all performance working hunter show where judge Kevin McGuinness was as pleased as the organisers with the large turn-out of horses and ponies.

McGuinness first had to judge the 60/70cms class where the winning combination, on a score of 106 points, was Donabate-based Charlie Mangan (17) with her mother Helen’s four-year-old Connemara Galtee Donald, a gelding by Kinvara Boy out of the Class 1 mare Bean Uachtair (by Lishmar Shadow), who was purchased in February from Hayes’ Connemara Ponies.