THE success of Britain’s Oliver Townend on the Irish Sport Horse gelding Ballaghmor Class in the CCI5*-L at last weekend’s Land Rover Kentucky three-day event served to underline the loss of Tattersalls to the international eventing scene.

Earlier in the Courage gelding’s career, the combination competed at one, two- and three-star level at the Co Meath venue while, three months after their final appearance there in 2017, they won, what was then, the CCI4* at Burghley and have since finished in the top five in all four of their five-star outings prior to Kentucky.