HARRIET Aveling went into last Sunday’s Equipeople AIRC national eventing championships as the reigning RC90 titleholder and, while she lost that accolade, the Foxborough member left Killossery Lodge Stud as the newly-crowned RC100 champion.

Both last year and this, Aveling partnered her Irish Sport Horse mare The Minx, a 2013 daughter of Emperor Augustus out of a black cob, who she purchased three years ago for her son Lucas to ride. “The Minx is a legend and I’m exceptionally fortunate that Lucas has grown out of her and moved onto a bigger model!