THERE was a new format for this year’s Creightons hunter championship at Balmoral Show but there was no change to the 2018 winning team of Co Wicklow owner Daphne Tierney and rider/producer Jane Bradbury who last week won with the heavyweight Kannan gelding Bloomfield Aristocratic.

The weight classes took place in the CRL Arena on Wednesday when Kate Jerram Hunnable judged conformation throughout, being joined for alternative classes by her husband, Chris Hunnable, or Jody Sole as the other rode the exhibits forward.