THE Minister for Defence’s Derrycush, ridden by Commandant Geoff Curran, captured the latest round of the Gain/Alltech 1.40m National Grand Prix league in Mullingar last Sunday.

Speaking to The Irish Field, Curran said: “I won the 1.40m class on a horse I think an awful lot of, Derrycush. He won a 1.35m class at the Nations Cup show in Bratislava earlier this year, and this was his first proper win on home soil and it certainly won’t be his last. He is a real competitive horse.