THE three of us [Niamh Grimes, Samantha Fitzsimons and Maryclare Travers] met in Ballyteague Stables about 15 years ago, where we all had horses on livery. In 2014, we decided to buy a horse together and started the search.

Maryclare had fallen in love with a Crosstown Dancer mare who was in the Performance Irish Draught class at Dublin Horse Show and so we agreed to search for a filly or mare by the sire.