GOING back in the archives today, we found pictures of Colorado Blue as a foal with his mum. “Beautiful quality, that lovely upright stance, presence, great movement. A very agile, athletic little foal, gave his mother nightmares I’d say!”

Kate Jarvey is reminiscing about breeding the charismatic grey, best of the Irish team horses at Tokyo (13th) with Austin O’Connor. “It happens so rarely. There’s so many disappointments with horses but just this one time, it did really happen. It’s just an absolutely fabulous story and I’m so thrilled for Austin, for the owners, for the whole team. If you wrote a great story about horses, this would be one.”