CHRISTMAS proved a very fruitful one for me, as I rode three winners over the festive period. I was delighted to finish 2015 with a victory at Punchestown on New Year’s Eve aboard Jazz Ranger and didn’t have to wait too long to get on the board for 2016, as Good As Gold provided a winner on New Year’s Day at Fairyhouse. So far this season I have partnered eight winners, to add to the 10 of the previous campaign.

Both of my parents were keen hunters and tell me that I could ride as soon as I was born. I know that I was out with the local hunt by the age of five and a year or so later I had graduated to pony club and show jumping/eventing.