IT’s hard to know who was the more excited – exuberant Ballynahinch producer Davy Lyons, who showed Tullabeg Hello to win the youngstock championship at last week’s Balmoral Show, or the bay filly’s owner, Paula Howard.

As friends kept coming up to congratulate Howard following the three-year-old’s victory in the P&O Arena on the opening day of the show, I waited until this Tuesday to contact the Co Kildare showing enthusiast. There were no distractions at this stage, but no drop in euphoria either.