BE it racing or any other equestrian sport, owning a top-class home-bred mare is particularly satisfying, so Kate Jarvey had every reason to be delighted when Diamond Mistress recorded her first international success in the Kiernan’s Garden Centre CCI2*-S at Ballindenisk last Sunday.

The second of two winners at the Co Cork event by the Holstein stallion Diarado, the seven-year-old Irish Sport Horse, who is out of the Master Imp mare Shes My Master (CCI3*-S), was ridden as usual by Mallow’s Sian Coleman, who seems to have a special affinity with Jarvey-owned mares. This present combination first came to prominence when winning the four-year-old young event horse class at the Covid-affected RDS national equestrian championships at Lambertstown in August 2021.