Renewed Irish focus at RDS

THE celebrated Dublin Horse Show has traditionally been a shop window for farmers to put their young horses on view in the hope of attracting buyers and making sales.

Securing a place in the line up at the RDS in August has always been the aim of breeders and owners as they start out on the annual circuit of championship qualifiers at shows countrywide at this time each year.

That’s not surprising because the show, ever since it began on the lawns of Leinster House in 1868 to foster the equestrian industry, has grown beyond all the expectations of the RDS.