MOST of the riders who competed in Friday morning’s finals of the ‘Balmoral Star of the Future’ performance horse championships at last week’s Balmoral Show are eventers and most of them would very much like to see the competition, and its qualifiers, revert to being a young event horse class.

Jane Darragh’s Horsefinder champion was the six and seven-year-old class winner, Ashwood Rio, who was ridden as usual by Co Wicklow’s Ciara O’Connor for her aunt Sharon who bred the seven-year-old Dignified vant Zoegvliet gelding out her Ramiro B mare Pikeur. The bay Irish Sport Horse gelding finished second in this class last year and afterwards won the Junior/Young Rider event horse class at the Dublin Horse Show.