WHAT do we know about Ballaghmor Class, the Limerick-bred grey? Pedigree database searches found nothing. Ireland is lucky though to have founts of knowledge, such as Philip Scott who knew the complete history of Gormley, the dual Olympic eventer, included in the Irish-bred Olympics eventers article. Bred in Ballina by Jane Gormley, the thoroughbred went back to a Monksfield mare owned and raced by his parents.

Slyguff Stud’s ever-patient Frances and Barbara Hatton continually point me in the right direction for tracking down breeders and are practically custodians of Irish sport horse breeding history.