WHILE there are a number of ex-racehorses competing in this weekend’s Tattersalls International Horse Trials, one former amateur rider who jogged his horse up on Tuesday was Ciaran Moran.

Ciaran, who partnered 14 point-to-point winners from 2002 to 2006, is riding the Irish Sport Horse gelding Saunderscourt Flying Lad in the very competitive Cooley Farms CCI1* class for six and seven-year-olds. Going into yesterday’s cross-country phase, the combination, on a dressage score of 53 penalties, were lying in 37th place in the 56-strong field.