THE first Irish Horse World front page photograph of 2025 (Saturday, January 4th) was a hunting one featuring a grey, Catherine Power having caught Olympian Michael Ryan, who was hunting hounds that day, jumping a hedge from the Scarteens’ meet at Knockcarron.

A week later, Siobhan English’s photograph also featured a grey hunter, but this one was partnered side saddle by well-known show horse rider Maria McNamara who was looking incredibly stylish out with the East Galways.