DAVID Kirkpatrick travelled down to the Fagan family’s Mullingar Equestrian Centre on Sunday to judge the third qualifier for the Pegus Horse Feed performance Irish Draught championship at Balmoral Show (May 13th to 16th).

There were contrasting results to both classes, with a dead-heat more or less in the six-year-old and upwards section, while Craughwell’s Maria McNamara had four marks in hand over her nearest rival when winning the four and five-year-old division with her father Tom’s Shanbally Nightcap (Cappa Aristocrat - Moyglass Blackie, by Coille Mor Hill).