LISDUFF’s grading officer Olivia Connolly proved unbeatable in the Horse Sport Ireland showing section at last weekend’s Association of Irish Riding Clubs’ Festival with her Irish Sport Horse gelding Mountain Hideaway who she purchased this year having had the grey on loan throughout 2024.

Connolly and her 15-year-old son of Rebel Mountain won the first class to come before judges Claire Oakes, Megan Connell and Amy Kinane in Ring 3 at the Mullingar Equestrian Centre on Saturday morning, Section A of the lightweight hunters. Here the blue rosette went to Drynam’s Megan Fowler on her ISH gelding Please The Court, an 11-year-old bay by Waveney.