THE Riverhill Stud team of Clare and Jonny Steele dominated the CNC* class at last Saturday’s Northern Region event at Vesey Lodge, where a change in direction of the cross-country track proved popular with riders.

Disappointingly, we lost some of the great fence names that so distinguished Alison and Ian Wilson’s Co Antrim venue in the past and it was a pity too that Ian, having ridden at Glenpatrick in May, didn’t compete on Saturday. He had a good story about a fall getting one ready the previous week and how he had found himself with no help when the girl working at the yard actually left him to milk cows!