MADAM,

AS I sit here in the kitchen at 6am on this damp October morning reading The Irish Field, I come across an article re: Deirdre Ryan receiving the overall prize for having the most best turned out horses at Listowel recently. I realised no article referenced the best turned out in the Young Horse Classes at the RDS which is generously sponsored by the McCusker Group, which incidentally my daughter Louise has won the last two years with our filly Clonaslee Loughehoe Diamond.

Something both girls, Danielle and Louise, pride themselves is turning out their horses as do all of the other exhibitors.

A lot of hard work goes into turning out both exhibitors and horses in Show Classes.

Credit where credit is due to all.

Yours etc,

John Cusack

Clonaslee

Co Laois