THE second-place finish of the Deutches Sportpferd in the breed competition at Le Lion d’Angers was mainly due to Bob Chaplin who won the silver medal in the six-year-old CCI1* class under Australia’s Paul Tapner.

However, this grey gelding, who was bred in Co Tyrone by Ken Thompson, could just as easily have been registered as an Irish Sport Horse and, in fact, is described as being such on the Tapner Eventing Team website.