ANYONE travelling to Glaslough from the north and east of the country last Saturday couldn’t believe how dry the roads were within a 10-mile radius of the Co Monaghan venue which was hosting its first Eventing Ireland one-day of the summer.

“We had about two hours’ rain yesterday evening but that was it,” reported Caroline McQuillan, event secretary on the day with her sister, Rosemary Bellew. They repeated that comment quite a lot during the morning as riders called in to the office to collect their numbers when they were also informed of the change to the start of the cross-country course.