UNDERAGE European championships take place every year but what made the Junior and Young Rider eventing championships so special in 2017 was that they were staged in Millstreet, Co Cork.

Disappointingly, none of the medals stayed in this country, Alex Power being the highest-placed Irish rider in the Junior section when 10th with the seven-year-old Hanoverian gelding Lakantus, while Cathal Daniels, who was to receive an Olympic Solidarity Scholarship before the end of the year, was fourth in the Young Riders championship on Sammy Davis Junior.