THE Wachman family announced the retirement of Atlantic Du Seigneur at the age of 19. The SBS gelding by Schilling joined the Coolmore Showjumping team from Belgium’s Gundrum Patteet in 2019 and has been ridden by all three siblings - Max, Tom and Alice - to great success, including on underage Nations Cup teams for Ireland.

Under Alice, the gelding jumped a double clear round in last Sunday’s CSI2* 1.40m in Vejer de la Frontera, to finish seventh, before calling time on his career. There were many tributes shared on social media from the family, including his junior rider who said: “To know you is to love you, Atlantic. Thank you for everything.”