AN excellent weekend for the Shane McKenna Show Team commenced on Saturday at the Flavours of Fingal County Show in the grounds of Newbridge House, where the team principal claimed the ridden championship in Ring 2 on the cob class winner, Rochestown Royal Lily.

Marie Ahearn’s six-year-old maxi, an Irish Draught mare by Penmerryls Rhythm And Blues out of Rochestown Madison (by Welcome Diamond), was making her second public appearance. The previous weekend, the Jeremiah O’Donoghue-bred chesnut had made her debut at Charleville, where she also won the mixed cob class.