WE don’t know how many young showing riders from Ireland will be competing at next week’s Horse Of the Year Show, while others may be travelling over to Birmingham in support, to shop or to check things out for themselves for next year.

We are aware however that 12-year-old Nancy Lyons Teehan, a keen and very active member of the Irish Pony Society and the Irish Pony Club, has qualified ponies for three of the Mole Valley Farmers/National Pony Society open working hunter classes, which take place on Friday.