Show classes:Tiernan Gill had one of those special days in the RDS show rings yesterday, taking the Dublin yearling championship and then going on to claim the overall supreme and reserve young horse titles.
The Ballina, Co Mayo, producer started his day by taking the yearling honours with an unnamed gelding son of Limmerick. The youngster held off the challenge from filly champion Tattygare Follow Me out of the Hurst Show Horses stable in Co Fermanagh, where Gill's champion was bred.
Gill's youngster then came up against his own stablemate, Dallas, in the judging for the supreme championship. Dallas, another son of Limmerick, but out of a different mare, had lifted the three-year-old title on Thursday and was tipped to go all the way in the supreme, but it was the yearling that got the nod, with Dallas called in for the reserve, to finish off an incredible sweep for the Mayo man.
If Adrian and Shirley Hurst couldn't take the supreme title themselves, at least it was won by a horse they had bred. But Tattygare Follow Me gave the Co Fermanagh producers quite a day too. The Hursts had won Thursday's two-year-old championship with Tattygare Watch This Space, winner of the yearling championship 12 months ago, and then brought out the year younger Tattygare Follow Me to take yesterday's yearling filly title, the reserve yearling ticket and the Pembroke Cup for the best home-bred exhibit.
Richard Iggulden steered Alan and Alison Kirkpatrick's Millbank Classic to take the lightweight championship.