A SPECIAL reception was held in Co Kilkenny to welcome home Ireland’s Lanaken ultra-talented gold and silver winners from their performances at the Belgian showpiece – Jason Foley (18), Seamus Hughes-Kennedy (17) and Mikey Pender (19). Exhibiting textbook performances under pressure, the young trio dominated the FEI WBFSH Jumping World Breeding Championships 2019 Young Horses in the five, six, and seven-year-old finals taking four of the nine major awards before the world’s very best.

Seamus Hughes-Kennedy won gold in the seven-year-old final with Cuffesgrange Cavadora ((ISH) Z Wellie 72 (KWPN) out of Cuffesgrange Cavalidam (ISH) by Luidam (KWPN)), bred by Eamonn Sheahan and owned by Clare Hughes.