THE Covid-19 restrictions meant that our top home-based riders, who might otherwise have been competing abroad, were in action at the Ballindenisk International Horse Trials last week but, ironically, the same restrictions meant that there were no spectators present to watch them.

Three members of the teams who represented Ireland at the European championships in Luhmühlen, Germany last year and at the World Equestrian Games in the United States in 2018 competed at the Fell family’s Watergrasshill venue and they landed a win apiece, two at four-star level.