JUST after 2pm next Friday at the Gallagher Dublin Horse Show, some very passionate fans will gather around Ring 2 as Britain’s Hayden Hankey and Ann Bassett commence judging the three cob classes, starting with the lightweights.

This class was won last August by Hilary Gibson’s King Alton grey Highview Forthriver who, as seven-year-old, can now be found among the list of entries for the maxi class where he will face, among others, the Grace Maxwell Murphy-owned Balmoral winner, Gleann Rua Yellowstone. That four-year-old dun gelding by Liosderg Silver Pride finished third in the heavyweight class last year.