TULLABEG Flamenco, on whom Sam Watson represented Ireland in the eventing competition at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 and at the 2019 European eventing championships at Luhmühlen, will be appearing in the Pony Club combined training championships at this year’s Dublin Horse Show.

There he will be ridden by Ben Buckley, a member of the Co Limerick Hunt Branch of the Irish Pony Club, under whom the 16-year-old dun gelding comfortably topped the scores in the Open competition at last Saturday’s Area 9 Festival qualifier at the Ballycahane Equestrian Centre. Buckley and three others in the five-runner class qualified for the Festival at Barnadown in July (23rd to 25th).