HORSEWARE Ireland founder and CEO Tom MacGuinness won his first FEI CEI-3* 160km (100-mile) international endurance contest at the King’s Forest in Suffolk last Saturday.

MacGuinness was riding his 11-year-old chesnut gelding Horseware Sasha D’Aillais. The pair have competed in the FEI European Championships and, last year, made the journey to Tryon for the World Equestrian Games. This weekend they finished ahead of Spain’s Maria Alvarez Ponton (JM Bucefala) and Omar Blanco Rodrigo (Twyst Maison Blanche).