THE Judge household in Ahascragh was like Grand Central station over Christmas and the New Year with visitors calling to see Arthur, his partner Dandan Huang and their baby son William over the holidays. The couple met when Arthur went to work in China, where he met the multilingual business consultant Dandan with the master farrier’s Chinese venture featuring in The Irish Field’s Year of the Horse series back in 2014.

Since then, he has taken up a new post in South Korea with the family facing 16-hour flights back last Sunday. Dressage and show jumping are the focus at the Balios Equestrian Club, which opened in 2015 and where Arthur is now based.