A VERY successful weekend for Steven Smith began on Saturday at Vesey Lodge where he won and placed second in the EI110 (Open) on Virginia Maguire’s home-bred Handsome Starr and his own MMF Churchill.

The winner, a non-raced thoroughbred gelding by September Storm, jumped a double clear but picked up 3.2 cross-country time penalties for a winning total of 29. A fence down show jumping and four cross-country time penalties saw the eight-year-old OBOS Quality 004 gelding MMF Churchill complete on 35.9.