WELL done to the connections of the Connemara Pony stallion Banks Timber, Joe Burke of Cloonisle Stud, Co Galway, and the UK’s Sandra Burton, who took the Supreme Championship honours at London Olympia last weekend.

The grey, who topped his stallion class at Roundstown earlier this year, exhibited by Burke, was crowned the Lemieux BSPS Olympia Mountain and Moorland Champion at the London show under Burton.

Banks Timber (by Teglstrup Duke out of Banks Square Do-Do) earned his Olympia ticket at the final 2018 qualifier at Countryside Live in Harrogate.

The 2017 RDS Champion was making his third appearance at Olympia this year, where he has taken the best of breed each time.

(See international pages 90-91)