THE Young Event Horse Series (YES!) for 2023 came to its conclusion on Tuesday at Rincoola where, while there was still a focus on bagging qualification tickets for the Dublin Horse Show, the figures were tallied to discover who had won the league prize money sponsored by Horse Sport Ireland and divided between owners, riders and breeders.

There was a high-profile line-up of judges for the finale in Britain’s Angela Tucker and Annabel Scrimgeour for the ridden display, Comdt Sharon Crean for the jumping suitability and potential phase and Rathowen racehorse trainer Adrian Murray for the presentation phase. The last-named has often filled this role at Rincoola but, on this occasion, arrived at the McGahern family’s Co Longford venue on the back of saddling a Group 2-winning two-year-old at Royal Ascot.