IN the 1.20m section of the Gain Alltech Autumn Series, held during the Mullingar Autumn Championships at Mullingar Equestrian Centre last Saturday, even more excitement and drama unfolded, with less than a second separating the top 10 combinations. It was Alannah O’Donoghue with her father Patrick’s Fairy Fort who took the win in an electric 27.73.

Alannah told The Irish Field: “I’m delighted to win the opening 1.20m leg of the Gain Alltech series. We have Fairy Fort for over four years now and he has been brilliant, he has given me many wins up to 1.30m and we have also competed [in] some 1.35m classes together. We won a leg of the series last year in Cavan and we travelled from Tipperary to Mullingar for this one class, so it was worth the trip.