IRISH riders competing on the international show jumping circuit get little time off during the year and their victories worldwide over the past 12 months have been written about extensively each week in the Irish Horse World. The highlights of their 2018 performances have been covered elsewhere in these annual reviews.

Just a note here to say that contained in the first issue of the Irish Horse World of 2018 was a report on the victory at Mechelen of Kilkenny’s Seamus Hughes Kennedy in the inaugural FEI Pony Jumping Trophy Final. The 15-year-old rode the remarkable Cuffesgrange Cavalidam, a Luidam 13-year-old who wasn’t broken until she was nine.