IT has been a hectic couple of weeks for Cappa Ranger who played a starring role in the May 10th wedding of owner, Grace Maxwell Murphy, to William McMahon and then carried the latter to victory in the ridden Irish Draught class at Balmoral Show six days later.

Thursday afternoon’s class was sponsored for the first time by the British Horse Society whose stand, close to the CRL Arena, is always very busy. Cappa Ranger, who was second in his middleweight class at Dublin last August and got this season off to a winning start at Newmarket On Fergus earlier this month, always topped the line-up of judges Caroline Saynor and Shane McKenna.