LUKE Coen, a member of Tattersalls Ireland’s bloodstock team, won Saturday evening’s novice supreme championship at the Northern Ireland Festival on his wife Charlotte Hatton’s Irish Sport Horse gelding Wellerman.

The four-year-old, a member of the first crop of the Denis Lynch-ridden Anchorman and black like his sire, was bred by John O’Toole out of the Lux Z mare Cloonagh Luxury. In Cavan, where he was also successful on the flat under Hatton, Wellerman was partnered by Coen to win Saturday morning’s four-year-old working hunter horse class.

Having first claimed the evening’s working hunter horse championship, Coen and Wellerman then lifted the novice supreme title ahead of the novice ridden cob champion, the Shane McKenna-ridden Marry That Moon Shadow, and the Lyla Vile-ridden novice intermediate champion, Regina Daly’s First Ruler who had a fantastic show.

“Charlotte and I bought Wellerman as a foal and have done everything with him since then,” revealed Coen.

“He did some of the Stepping Stones qualifiers and won the working hunter championship at the Wexford spring show, where he went reserve supreme. He’s now going to Balmoral when Charlotte will ride him in his four-year-old ridden class and I’ll do the workers. He is a very special four-year-old with a very bright future.”