THE first of this year’s Irish Show Association’s foal finals took place at Moate Show, where judges Siobhan Madden and Rachel Bennett-Hamilton had the task of selecting their All Ireland filly foal champion from 17 hopefuls in the AB Browne Oil-sponsored final.

Their winner, the third All Ireland champion produced at Moate by her dam, was Tom Newell’s Bahrain Cruise filly. The Clover Brigade mare Kilcahill Naomi has already provided the Claregalway family with two other winners, including the 2010 champion Kilcahill Diamond, by Colin Diamond, and their 2013 Bahrain Cruise winner is a full-sister to their latest champion.