Bay gelding a winner at summer show
Tommie Casey, Carrigdown Cross, Ennis Road, took the honours with Benji from a top quality line up.
The winning gelding is by Chevalier Decoupes out of Holycross and was bred by Robert Barrett, Mallow.
Winners of the hunter championships were Daphne Kierney and Jane Bradbury from Wicklow, with Giorgio, a five-year-old gelding by Darnay, out of Forever Buskins.
In the cattle rings, Albert de Cogan, Killamuckey, Castlemartyr, Co Cork won the Hereford and Angus championships, as well as the inter breed beef award.
Timothy Corridan, Fedamore, Co Limerick, had a championship double when taking the Charolais and Limousin titles.
Results
Ridden Hunter — Daphne Kierney and Jane Bradbury, Wicklow.
Young Horse — Tommie Casey, Caherdown Cross, Ennis Road, Limerick.
Gelding — mare four-year-old and over heavyweight — Richard Iggulden, Comber, Co Down.
Hunter four-year-old — Richard Iggulden; Yearling or two-year-old — Josephine Casey, Caherdown Cross, Ennis Road, Limerick; Half-bred yearling — Seamus Lehane, Ballymacowen, Clonakilty.
Three-year-old filly — Eimear White and Stephen O’Sullivan; three-year -old gelding — Tommie Casey; Ladies Hunter — Richard Iggulden; Hunter Brood Mare — John and Cathal Dinneen, Timoleague; Ridden RID — Richard Iggulden; two-year-old gelding or filly — Josephine Casey; three-year-old Thoroughbred — Dick Foley, Moulane, Rathcormac; Hunter Pony — Jane Lumley Fleming, Crossmahon, Bandon; Coloured Horse — Trevor Horgan, Piltown, Co Kilkenny; Ridden Show Pony — Simon Beirne, Knock, Fermoy; Welsh Pony —= B Laffan, and M McCormack, Clashmore, Co Waterford; Connemara — Val Lynch, Droumdaniel, Bantry.
Part Bred Welsh — Martin O’Sullivan, Droum, Leap.
Working Hunter Pony — Yvonne Murphy, Coolmoreen, Innishannon.
Cattle Hereford — Albert de Cogan, Killamuckey, Castlemartyr; Aberdeen Angus — Albert de Cogan; Charolais — Timothy Corridan, Fedamore, Co Limerick; Simmental — G and L Behan, Ballyfin, Co Laois; Limousin — Timothy Corridan; Belgian Blue — John Cahalane, Castlehaven, Skibbereen; Commercial — R and M McGivern, Ballinbrittig, Carrigtwohill; Supreme Dairy Champion (Holstein Friesian) — John and Robert Forest, Coolroebeg, Banteer; Jersey — Cal Hennessy, Ballydonough, Dungourney; Shorthorn — Gillian Smith, Hillstown, Carrigaline.





