NORTH Co Dublin’s Kevin McGuinness has settled back into the wind and rain following his recent visit to South Africa where he was judging at the Western Cape Showing Championships.

The two-day show was held in the grounds of the Stellenbosch District Riding Club where Kevin assessed a variety of ridden and in-hand classes. He then combined with the more locally-based Larissa Williams, Willem Engelbrecht and Greg Goss to select the supreme champion of show which was Dageraad Geeske, winner earlier of the show hack championship under her owner Sally-Jane Green.