JIM Derwin is an international horse dealer based in Athlone, Co Westmeath. Jim has been working in the equine industry his entire life and carried on the family tradition of horse dealing from his late father Francis Derwin Snr.

While Jim sells a wide variety of horses and ponies from riding school animals to top quality show jumpers and eventers, hunters are a big part of his business. “We sell between 70 and 100 hunters each year,” Jim begins. “We sell some in Ireland but most of the horses would be going to England, Germany and Holland.”