THE winner of the AIB Bank Holstein Friesian championship at Limerick Show was a four-year-old second calver exhibited by Sean, Eileen and John Curtin, Athlacca, Co Limerick, who also took the reserve’s rosette.

TOP class horses featured prominently at the Clare County Show in Ennis last weekend, appropriately in the county where showjumping was invented, according to authoritative equestrian journalist Michael Slavin.