A FIRM favourite on the schedule, the Children on Horses Team Championship took centre stage on Saturday morning in the EOS IT Solutions Arena at the RDS. The competition, which is run in Nations Cup format, saw four teams go head-to-head in a bid to take the 2026 title.

In the end, it was the Johnny O’Connell Purple Team that took home the championship on zero faults. In the first round, Darragh Donovan (Bazilika), Ellie Sheane (Monbeg Henricks) and Pippa Moore (GSS Mircino) produced faultless rounds. Lucia Keane and Elia were unlucky to incur a single time penalty. In the second round. Donovan had two on the ground with Bazilika, but all other combinations kept the poles in place.