CHARLEVILLE Show smashed all its previous attendance records and attracted over 500 entries in its showing section last weekend, when the added lure of visiting UK judges proved a major draw for the two-day fixture.

Saturday evening’s finale saw the various pony champions gather before judges Valerie Hodgett and Victoria Smith. The starter stakes title was the one most deliberated on by the pair, with Tara Hudson’s Mandella and Margaret Greene’s skewbald working hunter champion Moonlite Splash Of Colour, pulled out for a nose-to-tail comparison. The nod finally went to the charismatic roan, on loan to the Hudson family by his former pilot and apprentice jockey, Calvin Nugent.