DAFM Studbook Series Leg 2 – Mullingar Equestrian Centre

Mullingar Equestrian Centre played host to the second leg of the DAFM showjumping Studbook series at their Easter Horse Festival show which ran from Friday the 11th to Sunday the 13th of April. The series is delivered by Horse Sport Ireland, and funded by the Department of Agriculture, Food, and the Marine (DAFM) under National Breeding Services. This leg was a two day show with the qualifiers on Saturday and the top 25 or all double clears in the five and six-year-olds progressing to the finals on the Sunday. The venue was flooded with entries from across Ireland and the DAFM studbook series classes were no exception. The first horse was in the ring at 8:00am on Saturday morning for the five-year-old section with a massive 74 entries taking on the challenging course set by Tommy Gibbons. Twenty-three of these combinations successfully navigated the course to produce a double clear […]