CIARA O’Connor, who has won the Junior/Young Rider event horse class at the Dublin Horse Show for the past two years, qualified for the final once again at Forth Mountain on Tuesday on board her 2025 winner, Ashwood Rio.

The now seven-year-old Dignified van’t Zorgvliet gelding was bred by his owner, the rider’s aunt Sharon O’Connor, out of her Ramiro B mare Pikeur, dam also of the 2024 winner of this class, the Iron Man van de Padenborre mare Ashwood Iron Lady. Ciara is now competing both Irish Sport Horses at CCI3* level.