FROM their new yard at Nutts Corner, Jamie Smyth and Ryan Anderson produced Bloomfield Valhalla to win the ridden horse supreme championship in Cavan last Sunday evening as the Northern Ireland Festival drew to a close.

Ridden here by Britain’s Polly Coles for her mother Debbie Harrod, the 12-year-old Irish Sport Horse gelding first came to prominence in these pages in 2016, when champion four-year-old hunter at Balmoral and the Tattersalls July Show. As his then connections of Daphne Tierney (owner) and Jane Bradbury (rider) already had a four-year-old middleweight aimed at Dublin, they entered Bloomfield Valhalla in the heavyweight class, where he finished second.