LAST year, this column tipped Rathangan’s Nicola Perrin to win the TopSpec supreme hunter championship at the Dublin Show on Solsboro Zeus as she headed to the Ballsbridge showgrounds on the back of wins in the Connolly’s Red Mills champion of champions hunter final at Barnadown and in the hunter championship at Tattersalls July Show.

However, having claimed the middleweight title with her dark bay son of Dignified van’t Zorgvliet, Perrin had to settle for reserve in the four-year-old championship and in the supreme, behind the Jamie Smyth-ridden Tattygare Me Me Me. That Adrian Hurst-owned and bred Arkan bay recorded a clean sweep in the Main Arena on the Saturday morning as she also lifted the mares’ crown.