IRELAND’s Conor Swail was surrounded by a big group of enthusiastic followers when competing at the Longines FEI Jumping World Cup Final in Leipzig recently where he finished a sensational eighth with the suitably named Count Me In.

There was the horse’s original owner, Sandy Lupton, and her husband Robb Caswell from Springbrook Farm in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. They bought the Hannoverian Count Me In (Count Grannus x Sherlock Holmes) as a four-year-old for Sandy to compete in dressage and she rode him for over two years before he went jumping. Canada’s Beth Underhill competed him until spring 2021 by which time he was already 14 years old.