WELL known for big wins on the Irish showing circuit, striking Connemara stallion Banks Timber was crowned Supreme Champion in the BSPS Ridden Mountain and Moorland Championship, sponsored by LeMieux, at London Olympia.

Sandra Burton and Joe Burke’s 10-year-old Banks Timber, third last year, was bred in Denmark by Peter Bank Mikkelson and was bought as a yearling from sales in Co Galway by Burke’s Cloonisle Stud. Burke had flown over for the day at Olympia to see the stallion, who counts champion wins at the RDS (Supreme Champion Connemara 2017) and Roundstone (2018 stallion class winner), among his many top showing accolades, to be ridden to glory before a huge crowd at Olympia.