CHRISTINA Kavanagh, who recorded back-to-back victories at Forth Mountain and Tinahely in the Bucas Riding Club league with Russelstown Bay Princess, first really came to the attention of this newspaper when she produced her Ghareeb mare for the 2006 Future Event Horse League.

That year, the bay qualified for the young event horse section at the Dublin Horse Show, as she did in 2007 when she won the season’s first qualifier. In 2009, Christina and Russelstown Bay Princess returned to the Main Arena at the RDS but this time for the now defunct young riders’ speed derby in which they finished sixth.