“THE funny thing is when you’re travelling all the time, it’s just show after show. It’s only after it’s over when you realise what it all meant to everyone,” said Marie Burke, signing off last year’s feature on Tulla breeder Willie Boland whose ‘Chip’ home-bred line provided her horsepower for European and world championships.

If ever there was a year though for people to have time to look back, it’s 2020. This year will be etched too in her family’s memories for the loss of Jim White, one of the Show Jumping Association of Ireland’s founding members back in 1954.