FOR the second year running, the piebald mare DTS First Flight finished reserve in the Horse Sport Ireland supreme ridden championship for the Carl Geisler trophy at last weekend’s Association of Irish Riding Clubs’ Festival at the Mullingar Equestrian Centre.

The nine-year-old, who is owned and ridden by Tara Hill’s grading officer Maura Walsh, progressed to the supreme judging in the international grass arena on Saturday evening as she did last June by first winning her over 158cm coloured class, the coloured championship and then the Ring 2 championship. The hard-working judges in Ring 2, who were also called into play for the finale, were Denise Colebrooke, Rosemary Wentges and Kevin McGuinness.