FIRST held in 1990, when it was won by the late Michael Skehan’s Ballinvella gelding, the winner of this year’s Ballinasloe Horse of the Fair lunging competition was Danielle Cusack and Michael Egan’s MD Sandyhill Candy Z.

The Sligo Candy Boy three-year-old is out of an Aldatus Z dam and capped a great summer for the engaged couple from Mayo, who also owned this year’s Dublin Horse Show The Irish Field Breeders Championship winning combination Hallowberry Destiny and her Clonaslee Captain Cristo colt.