JOHN Codd may not have received one of the highest prices at the Goresbridge Go For Gold Sale in the Amber Springs Hotel, Gorey, on Tuesday night but most excited to have netted his Irish Sport Horse gelding Ballyshan Trendsetter (Lot 12) for €17,000 was British event rider, equine instructor and coach, Lucy Care.

The 20-year-old attended the sale in company with Jane Kinsella of Tinahely who she came to know six years ago. “My first eventer was a Connemara gelding named Toberpatrick Robin,” explained Lucy.