RIDERS may partner a maximum of two horses per class in the Pegus Horse Feed performance Irish Draught championship at Balmoral Show and Diarmuid Ryan filled his quota for the four and five-year-old final in the first qualifier at The Meadows last Saturday.

Ryan, who had eight rides in the class, claimed the honours with Dermot Molloy’s five-year-old gelding Cummermore Lad (99 marks) and bagged the fourth Balmoral ticket on board PJ Sheerin’s year-younger chesnut mare My Highfield Starlet (92). Both are by High Ho Dubh, the winner being out of the Crannagh Hero mare Cummermore Lady.