MEATH’s Caroline Lynch rode two horses in the Preliminary Category 2 championship at Barnadown last weekend, placing fifth with her Irish Sport Horse mare Quora, a six-year-old by Golden Lariat, and winning on her Irish Draught mare Diamond Rockn Robin, a four-year-old grey by Keamore Diamond Clover out of Sallygap Robin (by Rockrimmon Robusticus).

Winner of the Novice Category 2 title at the Slieve Bloom Stud national championships was the Leinster Region’s Tara Hayes and her ISH mare Sandora BS, a six-year-old bay by Spielberg out of the unraced Zagreb mare Silver Grouse who comes from the family of the John Smith’s Grand National winner, Silver Birch.