RATHANGAN’s Nicola Perrin won her third Connolly’s Red Mills Showing Ireland champion of champions hunter final at the Wicklow Show in Barnadown last Sunday, this time with the Irish Sport Horse gelding Rathmorrissey Lord Of The Dance.

The six-year-old dark bay gelding by Castleforbes Lord Lancer is owned by Keith Martin and Kate Boyce of Aughrim Stables and was bred in Co Galway by Jack Freeney out of a mare with no recorded pedigree. Perrin will be heading back to Dublin with the gelding for the third time next month. In 2023, she partnered him to win his age class and finish reserve champion middleweight and reserve champion four-year-old. He got “a bit buzzy” in his class last August and finished fourth.