No place like home as Pessoa expects Irish to thrive at the RDS

There is no place like home when it comes to winning for Irish show jumpers so we can expect fireworks from the off as the Stena Line Dublin Horse Show gets underway today at the RDS, writes Mike Dunne

The opening day feature event is the Sport Ireland Classic, which has a prize fund of €24,700. The first two international events — The Speed Stakes and The Minerva Stakes — come earlier in the day and there is also the first round of the competition for 7&8 year-old horses.