WARRINGTON’s Claire Coonan claimed the honours in the RC90 championship on Sunday at Nuenna Farm where, postponed from early April, the Association of Irish Riding Clubs held their Connolly’s Red Mills-sponsored national hunter trials championships.

In a 35-runner class where there was an optimum time of 5min 40sec, Coonan stopped the clock on 5.38 with her 15-year-old grey mare Lamogue Lady. Mill Road secretary Emma Meagher slotted into second (5.37) with her 10-year-old Irish Sport Horse gelding Rulahisu Romeo, a bay son of the Connemara stallion Josie Jump, while Clonshire’s Claudia Culloty finished third (5.46) on board the ISH mare Deedoora Uisce, a nine-year-old skewbald by Dooratown Hallo.