ONE group of riders for whom training has yet to commence this year is those who hope to be selected for the World Breeding Championships for Young Event Horses at Le Lion d’Angers in October. The qualification criteria has yet to be published by the FEI who did so for last year’s championships in April.

Horse Sport Ireland initiated a new selection procedure for 2018 with the selection committee comprising the organisation’s longterm chef d’equipe for the young event horse team Janet Murray, Lt Col Tom Freyne, Officer Commanding of the Army Equitation School and, in England, Rodney Powell. On a wider advisory committee, Barbara Hatton represented the Irish Sport Horse Studbook while Mandy Driesch was the representative for the Warmblood Studbook of Ireland.