FERNHILL SDF Five Star was crowned the Irish Breeders’ Classic six-year-old champion at Barnadown in Co Wexford last Sunday which saw a new format of two separate championships for the two age divisions (five and six).

Owned by Carol Gee and ridden by Timmy Brennan, he is by Nick Skelton’s Olympic mount Big Star, out of a mare by Lux Z named Lux San, and was bred by Samantha Heaney Fegan.