COMPARED to others, John Bannon didn’t have too many horses to compete last Sunday, day two of the Tattersalls Ireland July Show, but he was kept busy all the same going between different parts of the grounds.

His day started in the performance horse arena where he finished second, and thus earned a ticket, in the four-year-old section of the Dubarry Burghley young event horse qualifier on his Irish Sport Horse gelding A Good Call. This son of Rock ‘N Roll Ter Putte won the potential event horse class at Dublin last August and will be returning to Ballsbridge next week having qualified for the four-year-old young event horse class.