THIS year’s Flexible five-year-old championship winner - Anne Marie O’Gorman’s home-bred Cutting Edge Too (Urano de Cartigny x Carthago) - had a busy Sunday morning. After her win in the main arena with Shane Goggins, she then won the Broodmare Futurity class.

Aimed at pinpointing potential performance broodmares, the top-placed fillies and mares from Dublin’s loose performance, four, five and six-year-old classes are eligible for the Futurity.

Marc Hahne and Jacques Verkerk judged the final and the latter was impressed by their champion and reserve.

“Cutting Edge Too became the convincing winner of the broodmare futurity class. As the winner of the five-year-old national championship, she proved to be a superb jumper, with a great technique and a real winner.

“Thereby, she has an outstanding pedigree, with a sire and dam that competed at the highest level and the damline has produced multiple great horses. An upcoming superstar, with a great future ahead in jumping and, for sure, in breed-ing,” predicted Verkerk.

The reserve was Shane Kenny’s Leestone Emeresky (Emerald van’t Ruytershof x Cornet Obolensky), bred by John McKibbin and third in the Mo Chroi four-year-old championship the previous day.

“Leestone Emeresky is a tall, well-developed, long-legged attractive mare with a modern type. She scored well with her pedigree with proven top-class sires, Emerald and Cornet Obolensky in the first and second generation and out of a damline that proved itself with outstanding sporthorses. She jumped with great reflexes, moves with good reach and is very athletic.

“Overall, eight mares with great potential and a class to be proud of,” added Verkerk.