ON Saturday the first of the championships to be contested was the Aloga Auction & Castlefield Breeding Farm-sponsored five/six-year-old All Studbooks final with 30 combinations going to post in a bid to secure their share of the €7,500 on offer.

Leading the victory lap was Abbie Sweetnam aboard the six-year-old Magic Girl when they were fastest of the double clears in a time of 37.21. Owned by Jeremy Sweetnam, the mare is by Malibu TN out of the Padinus-sired dam A Lucky Girl. The pair performed well, claiming second place in the qualifier the day before and third in the first qualifier. Prior to this they had also qualified for the Dublin Horse Show.