IT was a very different Dublin Horse Show last week as far as Connemara owners, riders and producers were concerned as it came after Clifden, there was no international competition on the schedule and, for the first time, ponies had to qualify for all but one of the ridden classes.

That odd-one out was the stallion class but there was nothing odd at all about the winner, Robbie Fallon’s home-bred Cashelbay Rocket who, under Michael Harty, won the class before going on to take the Berney Bros Saddlery championship as the combination had done in 2019.