Powerful looking portrait of your horse.
I've found the best way (that I have found so far) of avoiding the banding in the sky is to first do noise reduction on the sky with some other tool that handles solid areas better. I create a duplicate layer and run a heavy NR pass on it, then often add a little gaussian blur as well. erase through and merge. That smooths out the sky better and the Topaz NR then creates less halos and banding.
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