WHAT’s rare is wonderful, as they say, so we might as well make use of the rare opportunity of highlighting the wins in affiliated eventing of a grandfather and grandson on the same day.

First step forward Denis Currie who, on his winning dressage score (25 penalties), landed the six-runner EI110 (Amateur) at Vesey Lodge last Saturday to notch up his seventh success of the season on Merlot, his 16-year-old Irish Sport Horse gelding by Lancelot. Naomi Buchanan finished second with Mezcal, whose total of 29.6 included 1.6 show jumping time penalties.