Generations of breeding shone through at Clarecastle where the second of this year’s Irish Shows Association’s All Ireland sport horse foal finals took place.
Patrick Wafer’s Parkmore Tyson successfully pulled off a Dublin-All Ireland double by landing the Glenn Knipe and John O’Brien judged-colt foal final, sponsored by Ennis Municipal Authority.
Local TDs and politicians, gathered for the show’s official opening, were left in no doubt after show chair Michael Slattery’s rallying cry that more funding is required for the sport horse industry and for grassroots breeders.
Back to the showring where Parkmore Tyson, the winning colt foal at Dublin, where he and his Ghareeb dam Parkmore Evita also won The Irish Field Breeders’ Championship, finished his summer in style at Clarecastle.
Reserve and third places went to the West Cork pair of showmen in Kieran Fahey and Kieran O’Gorman with their Womanizer and Munther colts.
Eileen Slattery, the only Clare Rose to win the Rose of Tralee, was back from South Carolina for the Banner Broodmare Championship, won this year by John an Susanne Kelly’s Susie’s Diamond Miss. \ Susan Finnerty
While negotiations are still underway for Wafer’s Tyson colt, Fahey’s foal was bought at Dublin by Tom Spence as a birthday present for his wife Lynn.
The other feature class was the lucrative Banner Broodmare Championship with its €3,000 prize fund and free draw amongst the 18 contenders for a range of stallions, from Ascalon, Cristo, Denounce, Island Commander, Kings Cornet, Lucarelli, Primary to Royaldik, plus a €500 voucher from Kylemore Stud, coincidentally owners of the sires of the All Ireland colt foal pair.
Suspense
There was similar suspense in the closing stages of the Banner Broodmare Championship as Michael Slavin called out the top six mares in reverse order.
Loughrea owners John and Susanne Kelly literally jumped for joy when their Susie’s Diamond Miss was announced as the winner. She goes back to Morning Star, a name often featured in these pages in the 1980s, and this El Teide sired mare was owned by Susanne’s mother, Carolanne Buckley.
Keeping up the Colin Diamond strike rate was another of his broodmare daughters, the Newell family’s Kilcahill Diamond, a former All-Ireland filly foal champion at Moate and Mountbellew, and out of the Clover Brigade dam, Kilcahill Naomi.
Completing Michael Duignan and John Roche’s top-three traditional line-up was Seamus Lehane’s Kilnadur Peaches and Cream, in foal to this year’s Croker Cup champion Darsi.
Booking their place in the Horse Sport Ireland young handlers final at the upcoming National Ploughing Championships were Teagasc’s Wendy Conlon and Tiernan Gill’s choices of local girl, Emma Reilly (senior section) and Donegal sisters Níamh and Érin Sheridan, plus Megan O’Sullivan from the junior division.
All Ireland Colt Foal Final: 1, Patrick Wafer’s Parkmore Tyson (Tyson: Parkmore Evita, by Ghareeb); 2, Kieran Fahey’s by Womanizer: Madam Noir, by Kings Master; 3, Kieran O’Gorman’s by Munther: dam by Lux Z
Banner Broodmare Championship: Susanne Kelly’s Susie’s Diamond Miss (Colin Diamond: Susie’s Imp, by Master Imp)
Foal: P.J Lehane’s PJ’s Decision (Munther)
Young horse: John Tyner’s That’s Class Joe (KEC Maximum Joe)
Mini pony: Lily Donohue’s Woodroyd Flower Girl
Starter stakes: Marjorie Hardiman’s Creganna Amber
Showpony: Penny Kelly’s Chagford Leon
Show hunter: Cathriona Glynn’s Yealand Pilgrim
Working hunter: Dean McGrath’s Hazelrock Colleen
Connemara: Dean McGrath’s Hazelrock Colleen
Intermediate: Marjorie Hardiman’s Creganna Dandini
Generations of breeding shone through at Clarecastle where the second of this year’s Irish Shows Association’s All Ireland sport horse foal finals took place.
Patrick Wafer’s Parkmore Tyson successfully pulled off a Dublin-All Ireland double by landing the Glenn Knipe and John O’Brien judged-colt foal final, sponsored by Ennis Municipal Authority.
Local TDs and politicians, gathered for the show’s official opening, were left in no doubt after show chair Michael Slattery’s rallying cry that more funding is required for the sport horse industry and for grassroots breeders.
Back to the showring where Parkmore Tyson, the winning colt foal at Dublin, where he and his Ghareeb dam Parkmore Evita also won The Irish Field Breeders’ Championship, finished his summer in style at Clarecastle.
Reserve and third places went to the West Cork pair of showmen in Kieran Fahey and Kieran O’Gorman with their Womanizer and Munther colts.
Eileen Slattery, the only Clare Rose to win the Rose of Tralee, was back from South Carolina for the Banner Broodmare Championship, won this year by John an Susanne Kelly’s Susie’s Diamond Miss. \ Susan Finnerty
While negotiations are still underway for Wafer’s Tyson colt, Fahey’s foal was bought at Dublin by Tom Spence as a birthday present for his wife Lynn.
The other feature class was the lucrative Banner Broodmare Championship with its €3,000 prize fund and free draw amongst the 18 contenders for a range of stallions, from Ascalon, Cristo, Denounce, Island Commander, Kings Cornet, Lucarelli, Primary to Royaldik, plus a €500 voucher from Kylemore Stud, coincidentally owners of the sires of the All Ireland colt foal pair.
Suspense
There was similar suspense in the closing stages of the Banner Broodmare Championship as Michael Slavin called out the top six mares in reverse order.
Loughrea owners John and Susanne Kelly literally jumped for joy when their Susie’s Diamond Miss was announced as the winner. She goes back to Morning Star, a name often featured in these pages in the 1980s, and this El Teide sired mare was owned by Susanne’s mother, Carolanne Buckley.
Keeping up the Colin Diamond strike rate was another of his broodmare daughters, the Newell family’s Kilcahill Diamond, a former All-Ireland filly foal champion at Moate and Mountbellew, and out of the Clover Brigade dam, Kilcahill Naomi.
Completing Michael Duignan and John Roche’s top-three traditional line-up was Seamus Lehane’s Kilnadur Peaches and Cream, in foal to this year’s Croker Cup champion Darsi.
Booking their place in the Horse Sport Ireland young handlers final at the upcoming National Ploughing Championships were Teagasc’s Wendy Conlon and Tiernan Gill’s choices of local girl, Emma Reilly (senior section) and Donegal sisters Níamh and Érin Sheridan, plus Megan O’Sullivan from the junior division.
All Ireland Colt Foal Final: 1, Patrick Wafer’s Parkmore Tyson (Tyson: Parkmore Evita, by Ghareeb); 2, Kieran Fahey’s by Womanizer: Madam Noir, by Kings Master; 3, Kieran O’Gorman’s by Munther: dam by Lux Z
Banner Broodmare Championship: Susanne Kelly’s Susie’s Diamond Miss (Colin Diamond: Susie’s Imp, by Master Imp)
Foal: P.J Lehane’s PJ’s Decision (Munther)
Young horse: John Tyner’s That’s Class Joe (KEC Maximum Joe)
Mini pony: Lily Donohue’s Woodroyd Flower Girl
Starter stakes: Marjorie Hardiman’s Creganna Amber
Showpony: Penny Kelly’s Chagford Leon
Show hunter: Cathriona Glynn’s Yealand Pilgrim
Working hunter: Dean McGrath’s Hazelrock Colleen
Connemara: Dean McGrath’s Hazelrock Colleen
Intermediate: Marjorie Hardiman’s Creganna Dandini
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