Millstreet next stop for horses

THE Boomerang and Centrepoint competitions will once again throw up future champions at this week’s Millstreet Horse Show, even though the format of these prestigious tests has been changed.

The qualifiers for both, which would normally have been held in early May and June, did not take place. Instead qualifier rounds take place this week at Millstreet.

Show Director Thomas Duggan explained that the usual qualifier timing was too early in the season to ask big questions of young horses. “I feel that by the time August comes round the horses are much more prepared for tackling more testing challenges.”