SIMON KERINS Marketing Director, Tattersalls Ireland

At Tatts we lease vehicles for three or four years at a time. Those of us on the road do a lot of mileage – I would do 60,000km per year. Tattersalls cover the insurance and we book in the services through the lease company. Neil Walsh drives a Volvo SUV and Tom Rudd drives an Outlander. I drive an Audi A6 Avant Estate. It’s a two-litre diesel and is the third Audi I have had.

I could be in the car for eight hours some days and I have had a bit of back trouble in the past so I need something that’s comfortable. It costs around €75 to fill it and that would get me over 1,000km. I could do 800km in a day. The fuel bill has come down a fair bit in the past year.

Last Saturday I was at Lisgoold point-to-point, Sunday I was in Killeagh and Monday I was looking at breeze-up horses in Kildare, Waterford, Tipperary and Cork. I had to be pushed out of the two point-to-point fields, so a jeep with four-wheel drive would have been handy.

Having said that, I look after the car well. I’m very fussy about keeping it clean – I have a plastic boot protector and I carry a portable vacuum cleaner with me!

GAVIN CROMWELL Racehorse Trainer

I drive a two-horse van, a Renault. It’s very economical and you can drive it on a car licence. You can also tow a horsebox with it, depending on the weight.

It’s compact and easy to drive and, most importantly, the horses seem to be happy and comfortable inside. The vehicle is not especially expensive to insure. I pay about €600-€650 a year for comprehensive insurance. It’s a 2011 van and I’ve only just got it, so I will hang onto it for a while.

NICOLA FITZGIBBON Show Jumper

I drive a 2006 Land Rover Discovery. I bought it five years ago and it’s a commercial, so it’s nothing fancy, but I really like it for pulling the box. Economically it’s not too bad, it’s telling me I get 22 miles to the gallon.

My truck is a Mercedes Actros 26 tonne, made by AK Horseboxes. I bought it last August from John Whitaker in the UK, so it has travelled quite a bit.

It’s 2006 as well. It carries six horses and I have my artic licence, so I am qualified to pull the box on the back as well. It’s actually a left-hand drive so my first trip to Millstreet last year was an interesting one! But I have really got used to it and it’s very comfortable – it is automatic which makes life a lot easier. I have driven it from France to Spain, about a 10-hour drive.

HGV’s are not cheap to run but, relatively speaking, this one is much more economical than my last truck – I get five miles to the gallon.

The insurance is around €800.