CO Cavan’s Lakelands Riding Club may have missed out last year but 12 months on they claimed the top spot at the 35th anniversary AIRC Festival in The Irish Field Musical Ride class.

Their imaginative floor plan suited the Top Gun-themed music with all six horses and riders suitably attired as characters from the iconic movie. In front of a big crowd in the Aloga international arena on the Saturday evening, judges Maire Quinlan Pluck and Michael Moore awarded them a total of 112 points, six ahead of the Shrek-themed entry from Earls Well Riding Club based in Ballinhassig, Co Cork.