SEAFORDE’s Chloe Rooney, one of a number of riders who contested Balmoral qualifiers on both Saturday and Sunday at The Meadows last weekend, left the Lurgan venue with one win in the bag having landed the concluding ridden class for Connemara mares and geldings aged six and over.

Fitting the bill as a rider over 10 years of age, Rooney topped Valerie Davis’s standings on Mandy Boyle’s Fairyhill Markle, a seven-year-old grey gelding by Monaghanstown Boy who was bred near Cleggan by John Noel Mullen out of his Kingstown Fionn mare Fairyhill Madonna who, in turn, was out of a mare by Coral Prince.