I DON’T need to state the obvious at this stage, but 2020 really was the year that kept on taking! It took the World Cup Final, it took the Nations Cup series, it took Dublin (sob!), it took Aachen, it took the Global Champions Tour, it took Lanaken, it took the underage European Championships and it took the Tokyo Olympic Games!

I normally start the year with a trip to Florida towards the end of the 12-week Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF), but this year gave that a skip because I was heading off on a great adventure to Japan to cover the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games… again, sob. I did however get to Doha for the amazing five-star CHI Al Shaqab in February just as talk about some virus in Wuhan, China was starting to get louder.