Up north, the well-known Glenhill Gold recently won the advanced medium and the advanced classes at Danescroft under Becky Cullen, whose immediate aim for the tricoloured stallion is Dressage Ireland’s national winter final at Cavan in early April.

Now 15, the Saracen Hill stallion is “as fit as a flea”, according to Becky’s husband Declan, who partnered Glenhill Gold to victory in the 32-runner CCI*** at Ballindenisk in September 2011.