LISTED alphabetically, Shéa Connolly is the first of the 11 Irish students, but he was profiled last week as he joins Elinor Wolf (USA) and Lachlan Peticha (Australia) among this year’s intake for the Godolphin Flying Start programme.

Suzanne Hyland has a surname that is very familiar with anyone involved in horses in Kildare. The 23-year-old has a degree in music production and then travelled to Australia for the breeding season before going to Japan where she spent a year working for Godolphin.