PERHAPS few could have foreseen the changes in show jumping over the past 38 years, when Ireland first tasted European team success in Rotterdam.

Army Equitation School officers Gerry Mullins, Con Power and John Roche made up 75% of that bronze medal winning team on the Discover Ireland theme-named Ballinderry, Rockbarton and Maigh Cullin, together with Eddie Macken, on another traditional-bred, Boomerang.