THERE won’t be much opportunity for Route chairman and Master Philip White to relax in the next couple of weeks ahead of the hunt’s point-to-point at their new venue outside Portrush on Saturday, October 22nd.

That being the case, he and his wife Eavan are enjoying this weekend, supporting their daughter Tegan White McMorrow as she competes in the CCI3* at Boekelo, The Netherlands on the homebred Texan Style. The 11-year-old skewbald gelding is out of the Mizen Melody mare Mizen Talent, dam also of the well-known four-star eventer Portersize Just A Jiff.

The former Grade B show jumping mare Fabregas, a Rockrimmon Senator daughter of Mizen Talent, had her second foal this year for the Whites, a filly by the Sadler’s Wells stallion Clerkenwell, who stands at the Augheronan Stud in Fintona of the Smith family.

Also among those representing Ireland in Boekelo is Newcastle-based Jim Newsam, riding the 14-year-old Limmerick gelding Magennis, and former Co Kildare point-to-point rider James O’Haire. The pair are on the Nations’ Cup team with Tegan, as is England-based Padraig McCarthy.

AIGLE ALLEGRE

Newsam and his wife Emma (née Ponsonby) are now owners of the lovely Aigle Allegre who pulled-up in his two point-to-point maidens, in the colours of the late Terry Ryan, before finishing fourth in his lightweight five-year-old geldings’ class at the Dublin Horse Show. There he was partnered by Jane Davis, racecourse marketing support manager at Go Racing.

The good-looking grey by Kandahar Run had an outing in a one-day event in Co Kilkenny recently when, under Jim, he had a good dressage score, knocked two show jumps and went clear across the country.