Wilson brought all four of his rides through to the jump-off and produced the winning round with Castell Sport Horses’ five-year-old son of Caretino. It was only the horse’s third show and first time to earning winnings.

“He was the third of my rides so I’d had a good look at the course and pulled off some really good turns with him. He’s learning all the time and I have high hopes for him,” said Wilson, who also finished fourth with Intenable Du Forgeron, a six-year-old mare by Deauville De La Vie.

“She has a big canter, so it was easy to make up ground with her and she made two of the turns look easy. This was only her second outing, so we were delighted with her performance,” added Wilson, who is based in Powys with Mark Evans and Amanda Forster of Castell Sport Horses.

Wilson also proved in form at Kingswood on the final day, Del Quinto producing a typically determined round to earn Wilson third place in the 1.0m open.

The six-year-old gelding by Quality is just back in work after a winter break and he was quickly back into his stride.

“I’ve been here for a good while now and it never seems to stop raining, but I’m liking it a lot more now as, thankfully, we have hit a dry patch so we can get more things done,” remarked Wilson.

Paraic Kenny, who is based in England with Anthony Condon and Laura Johnshon in Shropshire made the most of his last outing before jetting off to America on a three-week training bursary with Darragh Kerins.

Riding Henry and Edna Harding’s Imona, Kenny showed his rivals a clean pair of heels in a hotly-contested Foxhunter jump-off at Aintree.

The six-year-old mare is by the stallion CS On Line (Irac d’Lile), who Paraic has also ridden with great success for the Hardings.

With many riders away on the sunshine tours in Portugal and Spain, English fixtures have been quite light on Irish competitors most recently.

Hampshire-based Keith Doyle continues to busy himself with teaching and producing youngsters and he has managed a couple of local outings with some new recruits.

After a skiing holiday in Austria, Eoin Gallagher is now concentrating on getting some young horses ready to compete over the next couple of weeks, and having been surrounded by floodwater for two weeks, Bryan Smith is now up and running again.

Following an accident in which he broke two ribs and a vertebrae when a young horse flipped over on him at Quobb Equestrian Centre, Mark Dorgan is still battling back to full fitness, but the Hampshire-based rider hopes to be back in the ring by mid March.