SARAH ENNIS

Event rider

LIFE at Sarah Ennis’s Co Meath event yard also revolves around her family’s dogs. Sarah and her husband, Niki Potterton and their five-year-old son James have three dogs - two black and tan Jack Russells named Poppy and Milly and Sam, their German Shepherd. In addition, they walk two Meath hunt hounds, Fondle and Focus, every day and will have them until Christmas. “They chew, eat and steal everything, they get on great with our own dogs,’’ said Niki.

Poppy comes on the road everywhere with them and has produced 21 pups in her lifetime, Milly is her daughter while Sam’s job is minding the yard and he’s become a constant playmate for young James. “James names all the cats we have. Once Ebony sneaked into the lorry unnoticed and even went all the way to Blenheim and back with the horses,’’ laughed Niki.