IRISH international show jumper Denis Lynch rounded off the busy month of January by purchasing Bertram Allen’s former mount Hector Van D’Abdijhoeve, moving to a new yard in The Netherlands and completing the purchase on his new home this week.

Following the official retirement of his 2017 European gold medal-winning mount All Star 5 in early January, Lynch then sold The Sinner, a horse he had enjoyed success with at 1.60m in recent months, to Martin Fuchs.