THE Shillelagh Branch hosted Area 1’s Festival combined training and dressage qualifier last Saturday at the Tinahely Riding Club grounds, Coolboy where two tickets for the Dublin Horse Show combined training championships were on offer.

There were five starters in the Open competition and here two Shillelagh members jumped clear - Jane Fitzgerald who won, and so qualified for Dublin, with Ballymurphy Hughie (70%) and Lucy Keane who finished second on Ballycreen Kings Mistress (68.25). Keane lost out on the Dublin ticket but qualified for the Festival along with Fitzgerald and two others.