Glamour, glitz and some fine fillies

IT will be Ladies’ Day in earnest both inside and outside the manicured rings of the Fáilte Ireland Dublin Horse Show at the RDS today.

And the anthem of all Shannonsiders’ Limerick You’re a Lady, the song made famous by singer-composer Denis Allen, will neatly sum up the feelings of at least one exhibitor.

Dermot O’Brien from Friarstown, Crecora, will make history at the 134th show, which Dublin Lord Mayor Paddy Bourke officially opened yesterday. He will exhibit a 10-year-old grey Irish draught mare King’s Sister with her twin filly foals, something that has never yet been seen at the history enveloped Royal Dublin Society complex in Ballsbridge.