IT was a great pity that just four horses contested the final of the Treo Eile thoroughbred league at the Milchem Equestrian Centre on Easter Monday as Amanda Goldsbury, who judged the dressage phase, comes from a family very much involved in racing in her native New Zealand.

Sunday’s winning rider didn’t travel from as far away as Goldsbury to the Tynagh venue, but Evita Thomsen, who recorded a comfortable success on Dot Love’s Black Field (169.5 marks), is not from Co Westmeath, as her accent may suggest, but from just outside Copenhagen in Denmark.