THE first round of the lucrative TRM/HSI New Heights Champions Series kicks off tomorrow (Sunday) at the Meadows Equestrian in Co Armagh, where most of the country’s leading riders will aim to battle it out for a share of the overall €105,000 prize fund. Defending champion Greg Broderick rides his own and Shane Breen’s eight-year-old gelding Billy Pringle and Mary Ellen De Ruschi’s 10-year-old Duco.

Also returning from the European circuit is Vincent Byrne, young riders Anna Carway, Jack Ryan and the in-form Mikey Pender, and Captain Geoff Curran.