REVIEWS: Showing - golden moments
By
Susan Finnerty
on 01 January 2021
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Sheer Joy: Mary Margaret Roche holds the Laidlaw Cup aloft for her and son John's Assagart Lord Lancer, the young horse champion at 2017 Dublin Horse Show, while Faith Ponsonby and Mrs Laidlaw look on. Assagart Lord Lancer was the winning foal in the 2014 The Irish Field Breeders Championship \ Susan Finnerty
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Elm View, the three-time Dublin champion, with her owner Seamus Sloyan and his late father Seamus Snr \ Susan Finnerty
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Philip Scott leading Jim Tempany's Leader Star on her final lap of honour after retiring from the show ring at Dublin in 2012 \ Susan Finnerty
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Jane Gibbons and Sianlee Picasso paddle on idyllic Carrowmore beach after the Louisburg Horse Show in 2015 \ Susan Finnerty
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All Smiles - Ballard Eagle, Seamus Lehane's 2010 Laidlaw Cup champion \ Susan Finnerty
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The late Ruth Rogers took this picture of Joe Burke and his 2014 Roundstone supreme champion Banks Timber. The stallion went on to win the Mountain & Moorland ridden title at Olympia in 2018 \ Ruth Rogers
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Sealed with a kiss: 2019 Dublin Supreme Hunter Champion PJ Casey on Crown Star and his wife Sonya , Reserve Champion, on Greenhall Push Button \ Noel Mullins
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September 2017: Minister for Rural and Community Affairs Michael Ring at the most scenic Irish show setting in Louisburgh where he suggested future funding for agricultural shows (Photo: Susan Finnerty) PAID
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John Varley hugs his daughter Niamh after their horse Elusive Emir wins the Croker Cup at the RDS (Photo: Susan Finnerty)
Susan Finnerty looks back on a decade of Irish showing and picks 10 highlights
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