THE Scott family from Ballina had a great day in the show ring at Galway County last Sunday when Philip won the hunter championship on the middleweight Its The Kings Speech and daughter Philippa stood reserve on Le Polar Bear, winner of the small hunter class.

The champion, a five-year-old Kings Master gelding, is owned in partnership by Philip and his good friend Tiernan Gill. The pair travelled to Wexford to inspect the bay in mid-December, on the advice of Jane Darragh, and bought him from his breeder Geraldine Gahan.