THE fifth and final qualifier for the Pegus Horse Feed performance Irish Draught championship at Balmoral Show (May 13th to 16th) was held last Sunday at Tubberbride Stables in Co Sligo, where it was run in conjunction with the fourth leg of the Eventing Ireland Western Region starter series.

For the second Sunday in a row, Craughwell’s Maria McNamara topped the scores in the four and five-year-old division on a grey belonging to her father Tom, Shanbally Pippalo Pat (Cappa Aristocrat - Roundtown Blue, by All The Diamonds). The grey was bred in Co Galway by Martin Donnellan, from whom McNamara purchased him as a three-year-old.