THE Dublin Horse Show always attracts thousands of people from the thoroughbred sector and quite a few of them enjoyed success at the RDS last week. There’s 30 pages of coverage in this edition, so have a browse and you will definitely recognise a few faces (starts on page 86).

Bloodstock agent and ITBA chairman Cathy Grassick is still on a high, a week after winning the Coloured Horse Class in partnership with her great pal, Emily MacMahon.

Cathy told us: “My husband Jamie [Lowry] joked he met more racing people at Dublin that you’d see at the races.”

Emily manages her family’s Lambertstown Stud in Kilmessan and is a player in the National Hunt world herself. Cathy reported: “Emily has been pinhooking jumpers but made the crossover into flat foals recently and I have been advising her. She is a fantastic horsewoman and I was very lucky to have her riding ‘Bella’ for me this year. They are unbeaten all season.”

Other thoroughbred people spotted at Dublin included Joe and Jane Foley of Ballyhane Stud, who had two daughters - Katie and Jodie - competing in the pony club games, and bloodstock agents Anna and Kevin Ross also enjoyed watching their daughter Holly compete at the Show.

Max Galway, son of Richie and Emma, and grandson of Jessica Harrington, did very well in show jumping. Other ‘racing’ names involved included Mia and Georgia de Bromhead, Ted Walsh’s granddaughter Lucy McCarthy (Jennifer Walsh’s daughter), Emily O’Brien (daughter of Charles and Tammy, so a niece to Billy Twomey), Thomas Meagher, son of vet Pat and grandson of vet Thomas of Kedrah House Stud, won the international relay alongside Mikey Pender.

Malachy Ryan from Moyglare Stud owned the third-placed horse in the middleweights, a class in which Joanne Quirke - wife of jockey Gary Carroll - took fifth.

Fiona Goor’s daughter Charlotte and Patrick and Susan Keane’s daughter Lucia were both among the winners, as was Cara Foley, daughter of Sue Ann and a granddaughter of J.P. McManus, who himself was at the show on at least two days.

Kate Molony, daughter of Peter and Sarah of Rathmore Stud, was on board Grand National runner-up Balko Des Flos in the Racehorse to Riding Class, which also featured Seainin Mahon, Rosie Mae O’Grady, Emma Connolly and the winner, Kate Harrington.

Edward O’Grady, father of Rosie Mae, also had grandchildren Jasper and Tristan Kelly taking part.

Tattersalls chairman Edmond Mahony took second spot in Sunday’s working hunter class and, of course, there’s also the Wachman brothers competing at the highest level in show jumping.

All the crossovers between the thoroughbred and sport horse sectors are far too numerous to mention here. Browse through the Irish Horse World section for more info.