EIGHTEEN-year-old Jason Foley has had a rapid rise up through the horse ranks since graduating from ponies, and his first Dublin championship win in the young horse division came in the six-year-old Cruising championship on Sunday morning in the main arena.

Riding the traditionally-bred Irish gelding Dawsons Flex (Flex A Bill x Kildalton Gold), who is owned by KM Sport Horses and was bred in Co Wicklow by Victor Bennet, Foley won from the startlist of 16 who made it to the final.