STANDING in for a pregnant Rachel Moore Rooney, Britain’s Harrison Taylor had some very nice rides at last week’s Dublin Horse Show which he got off to the perfect start in Ring 1 on Wednesday morning when landing the Tiernan Gill, Gill Group riding horse championship on Gillian Torrens’s Redmays Romeo.

Harrison first topped the final line-up of judges Jack Moore (ride) and Dale Atkinson (conformation) in the ‘large’ class ahead of Jamie Smyth on board Debbie Harrod’s Irish Sport Horse gelding King Of Clubs II, an eight-year-old bay by Riverland Roi, and P.J. Casey with Patrice Dorney’s ‘Baker Street’, a five-year-old ISH gelding by Dunbeggan Coevers Hill.