THERE weren’t as many horse exhibitors as usual from Northern Ireland at last week’s Royal Highland Show outside Edinburgh where the good weather resulted in a sell-out crowd last Saturday.

The in-form Jamie Smyth won the heavyweight ridden hunter class, a Horse Of The Year Show qualifier, with Debbie Harrod’s Irish Sport Horse gelding BBK Flynn who was novice supreme champion at the Northern Ireland Festival in May. Shown in-hand as a youngster by Dessie Gibson, this Arkan bay was bred in Co Down by David Mulholland out of the Ballynolin Dudley mare BBK Sumaya.