IT was a case of round up the usual suspects at The Meadows last Saturday for the first qualifying round of the Horse Finder Star of the Future performance horse championship and the Pegus Horse Feed performance Irish Draught championship at this year’s Balmoral Show (May 13th to 16th).

Having undertaken any task she was requested to do over the seven weeks of the flexi eventing series at The Meadows, one might have thought that Catherine Abbott would have given the McCusker family’s Lurgan venue a miss last Saturday. However, she agreed to judge the performance horse qualifier and, after weeks of wind and rain, she did so on the best day of the spring to date.