While this British thriller is good for the most part, certainly during its opening period, you end up wishing the characters would get on with doing what they intended to do from the outset.

A FOUR-year-old brown gelding was the champion ridden hunter at Dungarvan Show for Co Limerick exhibitor Abbie Shannon. Binders’ Cove, a lightweight hunter, is by Colin Diamond out of Madonna Hill.

NOTED breeders Peter and Marion O’Connell won their eighth Simmental championship of 2006 at Clonmel Show — an outstanding achievement for their Raceview herd at Knoppogue, Mallow, which has also won seven interbreed championships.