UNLIKE most of the Irish who travelled to England for the Anglo-Irish point-to-point riders challenge at Chaddesley Corbett last Monday I travelled over by car for a long weekend.

Since I was able to visit many of my family who are in England this made perfect sense and the fact that I was able to go to a hunter chase at Worcester on the Friday evening and then a point-to-point at Kingston Blount on the Sunday was a real bonus.