A VERY busy month for the Duggan family and their team at Millstreet begins next week with the first staging in this country of the combined European Eventing Championships for Young Riders and Juniors, which are being co-presented by Connolly’s Red Mills.

It’s 11 years since this season’s Luhmühlen winner, Julia Krajewski, led the German team to victory at the Junior championships at Necarne Castle, where Britain’s Laura Collett won individual gold, and one has to go back as far as 1999 for the last time the Young Riders’ championships were staged here. They too were held at the Co Fermanagh venue where Germany also won team gold and the late Sherelle Duke claimed individual honours for Ireland.