FIRST into the Irish Horse Board Grass Arena at Barnadown’s four-day show were the 40 combinations in the DAFM five-year-old final. With a high standard in the class, 27 of those delivered double clears and went on to share the €2,500 prize fund. Later in the day, 32 contested the six-year-old division and, of those, 12 delivered double clears to share the prize fund. These two divisions attracted a very large following, with 93 battling it out for a place in the final in the six-year-old and 101 in the five-year-olds on Saturday (all double clears on result pages).

Exciting