Commentator Robert McCarthy made many references during Thursday’s leg of the Future Event Horse League to it being the last to be staged at Dollanstown as the series is set to end at the conclusion of this year’s League.

The Royal Dublin Society has already stated that it will only discuss a substitute method of qualifying for its young event horses classes after its show in August. However, it is clear from listening to owners, producers and riders, that the FEHL will be much-missed and that a similar competition needs to be organised before the three-year-old sales in the autumn.