FOUR very active members of Cheval Riding Club, and their husbands, were among the large Irish contingent who attended the inaugural Global Champions Playoffs in the O2 Arena in Prague last weekend.

“The production of the show was something else,” enthused show jumper Laura Carrick who was accompanied on the trip to the Czech capital by husband Adam Monk who, in common with the other three spouses, doesn’t do any riding at all. “I hadn’t seen anything like it before – the lighting, music and screen graphics were brilliant and, of course, it was great to see the Irish boys in the line-up of the final team event.”