JAMIE Smyth claimed the Event Technical Services riding horse championship at Balmoral Show for the second year running last Thursday week but this time on Debbie Harrod’s Lulu de Beau, the reigning Dublin titleholder.

Smith first won the ‘small’ class on the nine-year-old Anglo European Studbook-registered mare who is by the Hanoverian stallion Don Aqui out of a Dutch Warmblood mare by Sandeo. He then replaced the sidelined Gwen Scott to win the ‘large’ class on Anne Gomes’s well-bred Irish Sport Horse mare Memory Lane, a five-year-old by Island Commander out of Julie Crosbie’s Hankalo mare Hankalaine.