THE seventh Connolly’s Red Mills Showing Ireland champion of champions finals were held last Sunday during the Wicklow Show at Barnadown where Maurice Cousins and his team had the main grass arena in superb order for the afternoon’s feature classes which were live-streamed for the first time.

English judges Michelle Burgess (ride) and Patrick Lobb (conformation) would have been unaware of the details of the horses before them but that could not be said of those following the action online. This was thanks to a well-delivered, informative commentary from one of the country’s top show horse producers, Jane Bradbury a winner and judge previously in this series, and Jane Davis, head of marketing at Connolly’s Red Mills.