PATRICK Curran’s Glencarrig Douvan, who was crowned champion ridden Connemara at the 2023 Dublin Horse Show, is expected to defend his title in Ring 2 next Thursday afternoon when he will once again be ridden by Grace Maxwell Murphy.

We know the six-year-old Glencarrig Knight grey hasn’t been resting on his laurels since last August but, as with all others in the stallion class, he can just be entered and rock up to Dublin unlike those in the other three classes whose connections have to go to the time and expense of qualifying.