THE Dennison family hosted a very successful one-day event at Loughanmore last Saturday when among those who joined Wilson Dennison to watch the afternoon’s cross-country action were neighbouring Co Antrim event hosts, Ian Wilson (Vesey Lodge) and Brit Megahey (Glenpatrick).

Like others, they were drawn to the Water Complex but not so much to admire competitors’ riding skills but to check out the Dennison JCB bulldozer/backloader/excavator/whatever overlooking the fence which the company sponsored.

The three all competed around Loughanmore themselves in the past and so would have empathised with society technical delegate Denis Currie who, riding in the CNC1* amateur class on his Arodstown Aramis, had to sit out the two jumping phases. Denis had been warming up for dressage when he was kicked on the leg by a passing horse. He rode his winning test in some considerable pain and, even though an X-ray showed no broken bones, he thought it wisest to withdraw.