ANOTHER Irish visitor to Le Lion d’Angers last week was Heidi Hamilton whose interest mainly lay in the seven-year-old championship where a graduate of her Co Wicklow yard, Johan-Some, finished fourth under Britain’s Gemma Tattersall.

Heidi purchased the Dutch Warmblood gelding unseen as an unbroken three-year-old. “I was at an event one day and as it was lashing down so I sat in my truck and started looking through videos of horses for sale. I was going through ones on offer through Harrington Horses and Johan-Some just caught my eye.