Last Friday, the Route Branch hosted the eventing competition at Alan and Muriel Campbells’ Dirraw Farm, an Eventing Ireland venue. The Finvoy couple had worked hard all week to ensure the course was ready. The fields were cut and rolled to perfection, there was plenty of space to park and also to warm up for dressage, show jumping and cross-country. Most of the cross-country course could be seen from a couple of vantage points and the sun shone all day.

The 21-fence course, designed and built by Adam Stevenson and Fred White, was at maximum distance for the higher graded classes. All six in the open and all but 10 of the 48 intermediate combinations jumped clear, but the cross-country time and the show jumping tracks built by Fred Guthrie proved very influential.