WHEN Lucca Stubington pulls on her pink cross-country colours at events, she is maintaining a link to her great-grandparents, Charles L. and Isobel MacKean, whose Soldennis carried the same livery to victory in the 1921 Irish 2000 Guineas as did that stallion’s influential daughter, Sweet Wall, in the 1928 Irish Cambridgeshire.

Those colours are now on a bit of a break as the Sweet Wall team, which comprises Lucca, her mother Georgia and her grandmother, Patricia MacKean, all adjust to life under Covid-19 restrictions. This would normally be a very busy time for the trio whose commitment to the Northern Region of Eventing Ireland sees them on-site early in the morning at events.