GALWAY’s Grace Maxwell Murphy and her husband William McMahon enjoyed a superb 2022 showing season with their home-bred middleweight Gleann Rua Da Vinci who rounded off his career on Irish soil by winning the TopSpec supreme hunter championship in the Main Arena at the Dublin Horse Show.

The 2015 Camillo VDL gelding is now in England as is Bloomfield Distinction, the heavyweight champion who stood reserve, and the champion four-year-old of 12 months ago, Greenhall Robin Hood. The 2022 champion lightweight Lady Bell, who was also crowned champion mare, is not being shown by his owner/rider Niamh Martin who is happy for the bay to rest on her laurels.