LEADING Irish dressage rider Kevin Acres, the national champion for 2023, is to break new ground next week when he competes for the first time at the Dublin Horse Show.

The Ballyfermot native, who is based at the McCarthy family’s Greenogue Equestrian, will be lining out in the large riding horse class in Ring 1 next Wednesday morning on the Irish Sport Horse mare Greenogue Dilly on whom Lucy McCarthy won in similar company at the Tattersalls Ireland July Show last Sunday.