THE Showgrounds in Ballinasloe were the venue for last Sunday’s Dressage Ireland Midland and Western Region show, which proved successful on three fronts for Niamh Macken, who was organiser of her first DI fixture.

She booked two top judges in Donie McNamara (List 1) and Jane Whitaker (List 2), she won both Novice classes she contested on her own Irish Draught gelding Diamond King Henry and, somehow, while it was a dull and rather misty day, she persuaded the worst of the rain to hold off until the show had concluded.