“YOU had a Badminton breeder, two Olympic horse breeders and the family of this year’s Irish Grand National winner. Not bad for a little show by the lake in West Clare!” commentator Simon Clancy remarked afterwards about the presence of Jenny Glynn (Capels Hollow Drift), Tommy Fitzpatrick (The Duke of Cavan, Rio), Patricia Hassett (MP Imagine If One, Tokyo) and the Blake family from Kilkee (Lord Lariat), at the West Clare Horse Show.

And that lake in Tullabrack is where another future Rio Olympic horse in MHS Going Global decided to take a swim in during one memorable show.