ALTHOUGH not a championship, special mention must be made of the young horse class at the Connolly’s Red Mills/AIRC National dressage championships in the Mullingar Equestrian Centre last Sunday.

Eight riders availed of the opportunity of competing their young horses in two tests and two recorded combined percentage scores of 140 or more. Just breaking through the barrier to finish second (140.6) was the elsewhere-mentioned Twinfort secretary Tabitha Millar Hagerty with her Dutch Warmblood gelding Saint, a four-year-old chesnut by For Ferrero out of a Voice mare.