JUST in time for the start of the showing season, leading North of Ireland show horse rider and producer Jamie Smyth has settled into a new base in the Glens of Antrim and is looking forward to getting out with a fresh bunch of horses.

Jamie, who had been working in England with Jayne Ross before returning home just before Dublin last year, has rented eight boxes from Frances Smith at her Carraigin Stables outside Ballymena where the proprietor’s own show horses, cobs and workers are produced by Corrine Robb.