JAMIE Smyth didn’t have a huge book of rides at the Northern Ireland Festival in Cavan but he had a good one in Debbie Harrod’s BBK Flynn, who, on his debut under saddle, won Saturday evening’s Equine Viewer Ireland novice supreme championship. “We bought him from Dessie Gibson just before Christmas,” Smyth said of the six-year-old bay Irish Sport Horse gelding who is by Arkan, sire also of Tattygare Me Me Me on whom the rider won the supreme hunter championship at Dublin last August.

Bred in Co Down by David Mulholland, BBK Flynn is out of the Ballynolin Dudley mare BBK Sumaya who did a small bit of registered jumping. Gibson showed the NIF supreme champion in hand as a youngster.