THE Leinster Region’s first show of the year was last weekend’s two-day fixture at the National Horse Sport Arena, where Preliminary, Novice and Trailblazer classes were judged on Saturday, while those competing at Elementary level or above were assessed on Sunday.

The highest graded score of the weekend was recorded by the third combination into Arena 2 on Saturday morning, Josephine Delahoyde and Mercury For Gold, who topped the overall leaderboard of Mairin Cassidy (List 4) on 73.65% in the Preliminary P8. Lynn Cadogan’s five-year-old Westphalian gelding is by the Oldenburg stallion For Gold Old out of Solea KS (by Sorento).