WHILE there were plenty of overseas riders at Millstreet over the weekend, there was also a cosmopolitan feel to the one-day event hosted by the White family at Maddybenny on Saturday.

MiMi Falb, who is currently based with Smyth Brothers Eventing, represented the USA in the EI 100 amateur class. Here she finished third on the Ghareeb gelding Kilpipe Jewel who was previously ridden at two-star level by both Michael and Patricia Ryan. This was the Texan’s second time to ride the eight-year-old in public, the pair having finished 10th first time out at Glenpatrick.

Sadly for Denmark’s Anna Carlsen things did not go so well as she made her eventing debut in the EI 90 class. Riding the very attractive four-year-old Lux Z gelding Lenamore Luxenbourg for Geraldine Graham, with whom she is working for a year, Anna was eliminated for three refusals on the course. Hopefully, she won’t let this experience put her off the sport while her mount, who is out of a Clover Hill mare, looks made for the job.

One young lady who definitely made her presence felt at Maddybenny was Tegan White’s god daughter, Zoe McCulloch.

The energetic eight-year-old left no one wanting when it came to hospitality as she provided a non-stop service of tea, coffee, biscuits, cake and buns with her speciality being delicious scones with jam, strawberries and cream. Zoe, who lives in Dunloy, was assisted by her mother Una and grandmother Nanno Fitzsimons.