COINCIDING with the pre-Grand Prix parade of champions, the group of interested onlookers at Ring 1 watched Sean Cubitt’s Rockwell RC win the Broodmare Futurity championship. Aimed at identifying broodmares with the potential to produce top show jumping progeny, the Futurity is confined to the top two fillies and mares from the loose performance, four, five and six-year-old classes.

Cubitt’s mare had already ticked the performance box in the five-year-old classes during the week. She got off to a good start in Simmonscourt, placing second in the opening class with Jason Foley and then finishing second in the Flexible final early on Sunday morning.