IRELAND’s Mikey Nolan finished second in the CCI3*-L at TerraNova, Florida, last weekend on Alyssa Cairo’s Carrabeg Hulla Balou who, on his three previous FEI starts this season (all 3*-S), placed third at Leesburg, fourth at Coatesville and was withdrawn before cross-country at The Plains, where he had been lying a close-up seventh after dressage.

On Sunday, Nolan completed on his flatwork mark (32 penalties) with the Irish Sport Horse gelding, a 2015 son of Balou Du Rouet, who was bred in Co Mayo by Joe Howley out of the Ballinvella mare Vella Flavour. The bay comes from the family of Music Hill Cruise (CSI4*). ‘Louie’ was purchased as an unbroken three-year-old from Co Tyrone’s Paul Douglas.