IT was a double win for the Burchill family last Saturday, as they secured an All Ireland final win and a mini championship title at a sunny Barryroe show. The West Cork show is now in its third year of hosting the All Ireland yearling colt/gelding championship, sponsored by two local businesses; Irish Yogurts and JT Motorcycles and Hon. Stephen Evans-Freke.

Union Hall Elusive, Burchill’s All Ireland victor, had flagged his Barryroe chances with a recent win in a strong yearling class at Charleville, where he went on to be the reserve young horse champion. Bred in Headford, by Seamus Leahy, (the same Galwayman who bred the Dublin triple champion Irish Draught stallion winner, Cappa Cassanova), the Elusive Emir dark bay is the sixth foal of his Simba-Carrolls Flight dam, Cloughanover Flight.