OLIVIA Connolly is having a season to remember with her 15-year-old gelding Mountain Hideaway who she purchased this year after having the grey on loan.

The pair were crowned the supreme showing champions at the AIRC Festival in June and recently travelled to the UK for the the National Side Saddle Show in Addington Equestrian, where they competed across the disciplines of show jumping, dressage, equitation and showing, all side saddle. The pair won the large hunter class before going on to win the championship under judge Mrs Amy Bryan Dowell, who owns the online shop The Old Hunting Habit.