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DUBLIN 9-13 August

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Dublin Horse Show, Royal Dublin Society, Ireland

LAST year's supreme young horse victor returned 12 months later to clinch the ridden hunter supreme accolade at just four years old.

Brendan Furlong's magnificent lightweight Bloomfield Watergate (Percy) provided his rider Jane Bradbury with her third Dublin hunter supreme, adding this triumph to the 2011 and 2014 crowns she took aboard Bloomfield Olly and Bloomfield Excelsior, respectively.

Bred by Daphne Tierney, Percy is by Watermill Swatch out of Ballyconnery Surprise.

“I saw a video of him winning the All-Ireland three-year-old championship at

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