EXACTLY 1,000 days after winning a silver medal at the 2018 World Equestrian Games with Sam Watson, Horseware Ardagh Highlight made his Eventing Ireland comeback at Kilguilkey last Saturday, this time under Sam’s wife, Hannah.

Better known as ‘Sparkles’, she guided the brilliant 17-year-old Puisssance gelding, who she owns, to victory in the EI100 (Amateur) when finishing on their dressage score of 31.5. And it was Sparkles’ first Eventing Ireland outing since Lisgarvan House in September 2019, when she finished second with Kings Fionn.