AS Sunday’s Clonmel Agricultural Show was held at Clonmel racecourse, the most apt place to start this report is the Coolmore Stud-supported thoroughbred broodmare class, the richest of its type in the country.

This was won by Maurice O’Brien’s German-bred Una Sorpresa, an unraced 2025 Banyumanik mare who is the dam of three winners - this trio headed by the Soldier Of Fortune gelding Montgomery who has won three races for the Venetia Williams yard.