ABOUT one-third of the way down a list of Ramiro B’s 28 offspring in the 2005 Irish Horse Register foal book is one of his dozen colts that year; the future Cooley Master Class.

Bred in Two Mile Water, Co Wicklow, by John Hagan, the Irish-bred will go down in eventing history as the first horse to win a five-star event as Kentucky, Badminton, Luhmühlen, Burghley, Pau and Adelaide are now ranked as CCI 5* three-day events by the FEI.