A PUNCH in the air from Jane Bradbury just as the result was announced proved just how much a third supreme hunter championship meant to her at the RDS on Saturday morning.

Not since 2014 had she worn the supreme sash – that time on Bloomfield Excelsior – and incredibly it was another horse with the well-established Irish prefix, Bloomfield Watergate, who took the honours, this time for an ecstatic owner, Dr Brendan Furlong.