AMORY McMahon’s journey from Athenry to Kilmessan paid off last Sunday when she won the ridden horse championship at the Lambertstown Derby Show on her mother Kate’s Woodfieldfarm Baloo.

The six-year-old Spirit House gelding progressed to the championship by first winning the hunter class on the ridden programme, heading the final line-up of judges George O’Malley (conformation) and Claire Gilna (ride) ahead of Nigel Carolan’s Corran Rising Star.