THE hugely talented Ciara O’Connor had only two rides at this year’s Gallagher Dublin Horse Show, but made them count as she won the Junior/Young Rider event horse championship on Ashwood Rio and the younger Connemara performance hunter championship on Firbolg Dun.

It’s the latter success that concerns us here, Fiona Gahan’s seven-year-old gelding running out a three-point winner of the five to seven-year-old class over the reserve champion, Shawnee Shadow (266.5), a seven-year-old Bay Shadow gelding ridden by Ciara Lane for her mother Bernadette.