The Ballygowan yard of Colin Halliday and Emma Jackson is in excellent form at the moment as the couple’s hard work and diligence pays off both on the Eventing Ireland circuit and in young event horse classes.

The pair travelled down to Wexford EC in two trucks on Tuesday night with 12 horses, two dogs and one groom, Rebecca Nicholls. It was close to midnight by the time they arrived back at their Co Down base on Wednesday, Emma having ridden 11 horses to Colin’s one.