THANKFULLY the Northern Region event at Vesey Lodge went ahead as scheduled last Saturday when Ian and Alison Wilson welcomed all to their home north of Belfast.

Farm manager Noel Fitzpatrick and his team had the grounds in pristine order while, working with and building for the Region’s FEI Level 2 cross-country course designer Adam Stevenson, he produced some amazingly decorated fences featuring cows, a bronze deer, a giant tennis racket and concrete tennis balls, a ‘knight’ in shining armour and an old fashioned pump at the water complex. Looking well, our old friend, the skeleton, made his usual appearance in the bottom of the coffin fence.