WHILE Austin O’Connor’s win dominated the news out of Maryland last weekend, Irish horses were also holding their own with US rider Caroline Pamukcu winning both the CCI3*-L with Irish Sport Horse HSH Connor and the Young Event Horse Championships for four-year-olds with HSH Afterglow.

HSH Connor is a seven-year-old by Connor 48 out of Galwaybay Merstona by Mermus R, bred by Justin Burke and owned by Sherrie Martin, Luann McElduff and Pamukcu herself.