SARAH O’Dwyer MVB MACVs from the Troytown Grey Abbey Veterinary Practice has sent in this image as she is currently on veterinary duty at the Mongol Derby, that soul and body destroying thousand-mile trek across a barren steppe on a succession of wild Mongolian ponies, who will dump you and leave you stranded on the vast plain without hesitation!

Sarah brought some Irish National Stud brochures and merchandise to distribute to some of the local herdsmen. There were no Irish participants this year but the herdsmen seem to be glued to the brochures, no doubt admiring the Irish thoroughbreds.