GALWAY producers Deirdre and Richard Bourns secured the top spot at the first round of RDS qualifiers for four-year-old horses on Wednesday.

Barnadown played host to the penultimate round of RDS horse qualifiers on Wednesday. Running alongside the older divisions, this was the first opportunity for four-year-old horses to secure their place to the 2015 Discover Ireland Dublin Horse Show and some 150 went to post to bid for one of the 15 places up for grabs.