Crowds Come Out In Oughterard

Date Published: 04-Sep-2008

THE unseasonal sunshine brought out the crowds as the annual Oughterard Show enjoyed another successful weekend at the Corribdale grounds.

Saturday’s jumping programme saw Headford rider Elaine Creaven just pipped to the post by Ballina’s Philippa Scott riding Emer’s Boy in the final of the International Ridden Connemara Championships Junior division.

Elaine, again riding Tulira Katie Daly, later sailed effortlessly around the daunting cross-country course to take the under sixteen Derby first prize for a delighted owner/breeder, Kiltulla’s Lady Anne Hemphill.

On the following day, throngs of enthusiastic spectators, keen to take advantage of the unexpected summer sunshine, headed for the Corribdale Grounds where ponies, sheep, cattle, dogs, pets, horses, donkeys, vintage cars and machinery were exhibited.

From an early hour the stewards of the dog and pet sections were busy dealing with over a hundred entries which was by far the best ever seen to date.

The cattle section was also one of the most successful held in recent times with well over eighty entries of first class livestock.

The event, professionally organised by the local IFA branch members, had been relocated to a …