TWO former stable-companions stood champion and reserve in the cob section at last week’s Balmoral Show and, on this occasion, it was the younger of the pair, Jennifer Kennedy’s Moneycross, who claimed the honours over Pat Loughlin’s rarely beaten GHH Peaky Blinder who was ridden, as usual by Brian Murphy.

Winner of the lightweight class in the P & O Ferries Arena on Friday morning, Moneycross had already shown himself in form this season with three wins from three outings, leaving the Northern Ireland Festival in Cavan with two championship successes to his credit. The six-year-old grey, who was bred in Co Kerry by John McCarthy, is by the Irish Draught stallion WRS Elvis but there is no recorded breeding for his dam so he is deemed to have an ‘unknown’ breed type.