WITH the eventing season finished, my snatched moments of inactivity have taken on a nostalgic theme. Curiosity and coincidence worked together this week as I received updates on two previous graduates of the Stellor school of eventing.

Urlanmore Beauty, a 2003 gelding by Ricardo Z out of a Cavalier Royale mare very recently won the CCI** at Fair Hill International in America. Ridden by Julie Richards (USA) and sold by Richard Sheane of Cooley Sport Horses, this gelding always had the incontestable stamp of talent about him.