EAMONN Murphy and Ger O’Neill’s Dutch shopping trips have paid off yet again as it was on one such visit that they spotted Gipsy III, the dam of their six-year-old young horse world champion Columbcille Gipsy.

“Ger and myself were in Holland and just came on this mare. She was 16 at the time and had bred two approved stallions by then so we bought her. She’s been good to us, all her foals have all been good quality,” Murphy told The Irish Field this week.