FROM wet weather causing its cancellation in 2023, to last year’s 23 degrees scorcher, it was back to a typical rainy show day at Newcastle West. Not that the earlier part of last Sunday’s weather conditions derailed plans, for, as its chairman Liam Ruttle cheerfully remarked: “When show day goes wet, the show must go on.”

The weather matters little anyhow to the hardy hunting and eventing community. Amongst the exhibitors was Alice Copithorne, back from Germany where she and Fort Arthur Little Dolly finished 21st in their Luhmühlen five-star debut.