MEATH’s Joy Murray and Bee Smooth nearly had it all their own way at the AIRC Festival in Mullingar on Saturday, progressing to the supreme championship for the Carl Geisler memorial trophy as Ring 2 champions.

First of all, they won their lightweight cob class and then took the section title ahead of the maxi class winners, Mullingar’s Ciaran Rossiter and the 11-year-old piebald gelding Johnstown Boy. The heavyweight class was won by Clonshire’s Leahane Porter on her 10-year-old black gelding Jimmy Hairey.