IRISH Draught geldings won all three open working hunter classes at last week’s Balmoral Show, Diarmuid Ryan being on board both the four-year-old winner, Simon Kelly’s Clogher Highlander, and Dermot Molloy’s Two Mile Nigel, who topped the line-up in a very competitive five and six-year-old class.

Under the watchful eye of his owner, Lady Perdita Blackwood, the seven-year-old Scrapman gelding Clandeboye landed the seven-year-old and upwards class in the hands of Louise Lyons. The grey, who recently won the Horse of the Year Show horse working hunter qualifier at the Northern Ireland Festival, was bred in Co Down by Miriam Burney out of the Western Light mare Libertias Trueblue.