SKYE Higgin, the British Nations Cup rider from Whitchurch, who is now running a yard in Normandy, France, enjoyed her first Morocco Royal Tour with a team of two horses, attributing her career success to having trained with Irish international show jumpers, Dave Quigley and Paul O’Shea.

The outgoing horsewoman achieved a Pentathlon scholarship to Millfield School, but then decided it was not to be her career. She opted to start from the beginning in show jumping by ringing Shropshire-based Dave Quigley and asking him to turn her into a show jumper.