THE Jimmy Ryan perpetual trophy for the hunter champion at Tattersalls July Show returned to Co Wicklow on Sunday as it was once again won by Daphne Tierney, this time with the four-year-old champion, Bloomfield Waterfall.

Disappointingly for her, producer Jane Bradbury choose to ride the reserve champion, Bloomfield Bespoke, in the Main Arena on Sunday. However, she was on board Bloomfield Waterfall when Penelope Clarke (ride) and Philippa Moon (conformation) made him their lightweight class winner in the four-year-old classes on Saturday ahead of Laura and Elaine Haslett’s Financial Reward gelding, Strictly Takes Two.

Bloomfield Waterfall, who won classes earlier in the season at Gorey and Spruce Lodge, is a son of the Dutch thoroughbred Watermill Swatch.

He was bred in Co Wexford by M.J. Kavanagh out of the Annaghdown Star mare Bannvalley Stargazer and is thus a full-brother to Tierney’s recent winner of the all-Ireland three-year-old championship at Bannow & Rathangan, Bloomfield Waterside.

much beribboned

Saturday’s four-year-old heavyweight winner under Lesley Webb was Shirley Hurst’s home-bred and much beribboned Porsch gelding Tattygare Something Special. The tall bay, whose season started with a win in the four-year-old middleweight class at Balmoral, is out of the prolific Euphemism mare Tattygare Golden Delight.

The Tierney/Bradbury axis won two of Sunday’s weight classes, all of which were qualifiers for next year’s Royal International Show at Hickstead.

The pair struck first in the lightweight class with Bloomfield Kylemore, the five-year-old taking the red ahead of Yvonne Pearson’s vastly more-experienced owner-ridden Double Take, a 14-year-old Ricardo Z gelding.

The home-bred winner, who claimed the championship at Adamstown on his only previous outing this season, is by Financial Reward out of the Master Imp mare Bloomfield Abbey.

Connections of the locally-bred and produced six-year-old Crosstown Dancer gelding Ballinapark Endeavour can be proud of their grey’s achievement in finishing second to the similarly coloured Bloomfield Bespoke in the middleweight class.

The five-year-old Future Trend gelding, who was bred by Co Clare’s James Nash out of the Prospect Pride mare Malibu On Ice, won his class in Dublin last year when he was also reserve middleweight and reserve four-year-old champion. This season his CV boasts championship successes at Balmoral, Gorey and Thomastown.

Also claiming a Balmoral victory this year is the Crosstown Dancer gelding Master Flint who won Sunday’s heavyweight class under his owner, Vicky Ormedilla. The chesnut Irish Draught five-year-old is out of Imelda Moran’s Sir Rivie mare, Welcome Rivie.

Bloomfield Kylemore wasn’t brought forward for Sunday’s judging of the Lynskey Engineering hunter championship in the Main Arena where, in riding Bloomfield Bespoke, Bradbury chose experience over youth.

The judges went the other way with Tattersalls chairman, Edmond Mahony, presenting the Jimmy Ryan perpetual trophy to P.J. Casey on board Bloomfield Waterfall.