FOR the second year running, the winner of the Irish Thoroughbred Breeders Association racehorse to riding horse class at Balmoral Show was the former Warren Ewing-trained Easy Pleased.

The six-year-old Mahler gelding was chosen as the winner last year by Willie Mullins and Richard Johnson and, last week, topped the line-up of Paul Carberry and Noel Meade. The bay only ran once for Ewing, unseating his rider five out in a four-year-old maiden at Tattersalls in November 2021.