THOSE competing in the afternoon’s working hunter classes at the last of the Balmoral Connemara qualifiers staged at Mullingar on Sunday, had the best of the weather.

Unusually, Nancy Lyons Teehan had just the one ride, but made it count by winning the working hunter class for riders under 16 on the Cremello gelding Buachaill Buí (Templebready Fear Bui - Golden Bee, by Glaskopf Golden Siskin). The seven-year-old, who completed on a total of 88 marks, is owned in partnership by the rider’s mother Louise and grandmother Anne Lyons.