GALWAY’s Mags Kinsella came into contact with a lot of strangers at the European eventing championships in Luhmühlen last week, all of whom had nothing but praise for her home-bred Jack Of Diamond mare, Rioghan Rua.

“I was wearing a jacket with Rua’s name printed on the back and people just kept coming up to me saying, ‘I love your pony, your pony is amazing’,” related Kinsella who arrived at the German venue on Friday morning, just in time to see the end of what was a superb test by the mare and longtime rider, Cathal Daniels.