AN unprecedented treble win by a studbook. That was last Sunday’s result in the FEI World Breeding Federation for Sport Horses five-year-old show jumping championship at Lanaken when Irish riders and Irish-breds took gold, silver and bronze. In tandem with the magnificent results delivered by three young stars of Irish show jumping, Richard Howley, Darragh Ryan and Mikey Pender was their Irish-bred horsepower.

The Irish Sport Horse trio became a talking point in international circles by taking on the major breeding operations and show jumping studbooks and leaving Lanaken, the Olympics for young horses, with a complete medal haul.