WITHOUT winning, Rathfriland veterinary surgeon Terry Smyth and his support team of dressage trainer Michael Boyd and personal fitness guru Paddy O’Rourke, really enjoyed themselves last weekend at the Dublin Horse Show.

The reason the three were at the RDS was the four-year-old Irish Sport Horse gelding Millburren Diamond. Terry and the bay by the Dutch Warmblood sire Valent were unplaced in Saturday evening’s middle/heavyweight amateur hunter class but came into their own the following morning in the first of the day’s working hunter classes.