WEARING my sport horse hat, I attended the Irish Horse World awards’ presentation at The K Club on Monday, where Wexford’s Bertram Allen was crowned The Irish Field Show Jumper of the Year and also The Irish Field/Gain Horse Feeds Star of the Year.

Bertram was accompanied by his mother Geraldine and brother Harry, a good friend of the April Star of the Month, Robbie Clancy, beside whom I sat for lunch. The Co Clare pony show jumper is a son of the late Michele Clancy who, under her maiden name Holohan, was joint-leading lady point-to-point rider in 1990.