AMONG the many visitors to Knockany last Saturday for the final one-day event in the Northern Region for 2021 was consummate horseman George Stewart, from nearby Lisburn.

While he was talking about the “two and a half” horses he has to run in point-to-points this upcoming season and the six-year-old thoroughbred gelding Drake’s Island (by Jeremy) who Katie Arthur rode in the older performance horse championship at Balmoral yesterday, George was also being kept informed of what was going on at the Blenheim Palace international horse trials in England.