OUR parents, Eamon and Maureen, came to Cuffesgrange in 1974 and built our farm over the years. My father introduced us all to ponies as we grew up, and we all competed on ponies, just as our own children do now.

We always seemed to have a mare and foal around on the farm as we grew up, but it was really in the mid ’90s when Dad and my brother Ronan bought a number of mares - one being Cuffesgrange Millennium - from Tom Brennan that our breeding programme became more serious.