ONE reason Emma Sweeney had been late back for the judging of the Eddie Fowler memorial championship at the AIRC Festival was that she was competing in the ex-racehorse performance championship, which the free-moving Mr Cosmopolitan duly won for Cheval.

In the Draught class, Sophie Marks had to settle for second with Barbervilla Lily as Carne’s Sue Corish won with a festival favourite in the Grange Bouncer stallion Killinick Bouncer, who she will be riding at Dublin in the Horseware Ireland team show jumping championship final.