CO Clare breeder Gina Heaps has been collecting plenty of rosettes and sashes this year and returned to Quin from the Dublin Horse Show last weekend with three of the most prestigious trophies on the Irish youngstock showing circuit.

This haul was all thanks to the home-bred Carrowgar Herald who was shown by Rebecca Monahan to first win his three-year-old medium/heavyweight geldings’ class on Wednesday morning, followed by his age championship for the Captain Anthony Maude Cup that afternoon.