HAVING disappointingly failed to get among the placings at the recent Dublin Horse Show, Julie Donaghy Simpson bounced back to win the Down Royal Corporation of Horsebreeders racehorse to riding horse championship final at Lessans summer show last Sunday.

The league is based on a combination’s three highest ridden scores during the season and, after the ride-off, Donaghy Simpson and her nine-year-old Olden Times gelding Shawstown were the clear-cut winners with three others finishing on the same score in second. With the highest ride score on the day, the reserve champion was adjudged as the eight-year-old Oratorio gelding Miller And Cook who was ridden by Donegal’s Oisin McCann.