UP to 20 million viewers tuned in across Great Britain - the largest export market for Irish horses - last Saturday to watch the coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla. Adding to the spectacle was the four-legged equine cast from the Royal Mews, Household Cavalry, Mounted Police UK and Royal Canadian Police. Not forgetting Seamus, the Irish Wolfhound regimental mascot of the Irish Guards.

Eight ‘Windsor Greys’, with their elaborate royal blue mane dressings, pulled the Gold State Coach in the Coronation Procession from Westminster Abbey to Buckingham Palace last Saturday. Three of the team were bred in Northern Ireland - Meg and Tyrone by Norman Brown and Newark by Penny Campbell.