LAST July breeder David Moran took his family to the Dublin Horse Show for a day out, the same as he does every year. 2016 wasn’t an ordinary year however, as the Limerick man sat in the stand and watched a familiar looking horse enter the Main Arena.

Moran wasn’t aware that his home-bred Limestone Grey was competing at Dublin, but under Italian superstar Lorenzo de Luca, the Try Time gelding won the class, as well as two others, in front of his eyes.