Although only in his third year of competitive athletics, the 14-year-old Otago Boys High School pupil displayed maturity beyond his years as he won the open men's high jump competition with comparative ease, achieving a height of 1.65m.
Although he has cleared 1.7m in previous competition, he missed this mark on Saturday.
The grass surface being of no obvious hindrance, as he appeared to clear the height with some ease only to clip the bar with his foot on all three attempts.
Cheshire has been no stranger to Otago age-group records, having broken two notable long-standing records along with numerous other successes.
He set his first Otago record in just his first season of competition breaking the boys-12 record and just before Christmas he bettered the 1976 mark of Stewart Blair (North Otago) by 7cm.
He decided on Saturday to test himself in the triple jump competition for the first time, winning the open competition with a distance of 11.62m.
It was a feat not lost on Otago women's champion Catherine O'Sullivan, who witnessed his achievement before contesting the open women's long jump.
O'Sullivan was quick to compliment Cheshire before winning her own title with a distance of 4.88m.
The apparent reluctance of sprinters to either compete at Mosgiel or on grass saw attention turn to middle-distance runners, with Dougal Thorburn (Wellington Scottish) emphatically stamping his authority on the 3000m field.
With temperatures in the low to mid 30s, Thorburn cruised through the first lap and then turned up the heat to eventually open up a 26sec lead on the remainder of the field headed by Glen Ferguson (Leith) and Alex Gorrie (Hill City).
Thorburn recorded 8min 58.40sec for his victory with Ferguson second in 9min 24.40sec and Gorrie third in 9min 33.80sec.
Thorburn, who competed for the Ariki club while attending university, returned to Dunedin last weekend and plans to return to his old club for the winter season.
Gorrie had little time to reflect on his third place in the 3000m, as less than an hour later he dictated terms in the open 800m, winning in 2min 13.50sec.
But it was the open women's 800m that saw Anna-Lisa Uttley draw applause for the manner of her victory.
Uttley (15), a year-12 pupil at Bayfield High School, has displayed huge potential, and was competing in her first 800m event on Saturday.
It did not really go to plan, she said afterwards.
"The idea was to sit it out for the first lap, but then I found myself in front and fighting into the wind.
It started to hurt a bit.
Then I saw my coach watching as I entered the second lap and I thought `Oh God!' I then had no choice but to hang on."
Her coach, Jim Baird, was full of praise and said it was a race she would learn from.
