IF there was one resounding message that breeders with a horse to sell took home from a highly informative Teagasc Equine evening hosted at Co Wicklow’s spectacular Cooley Farm, it was to “pick up the phone’’ to renowned young horse producers Richard and Georgina Sheane.

Selling approximately 100 horses a year – among them some of the world’s very best event horses – the couple hosted one of the frankest and no-holes barred Teagasc demonstrations events to date. The event was organised by Teagasc equine specialist Wendy Conlon, with Declan McArdle on video duty.