IT was great to see that all but one of the Eventing Ireland-sanctioned one-day events in the period under review, ran a section for amateurs competing at novice level, where those living in Co Meath did particularly well.

At Clyda (3) in August, the honours went to National Hunt jockey Anthony Fox, riding his partner Amy Parsons’s 11-year-old black gelding, OJ. Fox only started his eventing career less than a month earlier at Tullymurry, (2) where he won the EI100 (Amateur) class on the same horse.