HENRIETTA KNIGHT won plaudits from both owners and spectators for her thorough judging and courtesy on both days, so it was unfortunate that Saturday morning’s Welsh pony classes were marked by one exhibitor’s verbal abuse directed at the visiting judge and a volunteer steward at the top Co Cork show. The incident is apparently the latest incident caused by the same exhibitor competing in the Munster region.

“It’s been going on now every single Sunday with judges being abused by this man when he doesn’t win but it has to stop now,” said another exhibitor at the show, who did not wish to be named.