CONGRATULATIONS are in order for Irish international dressage rider Abigail Lyle, who happily answered ‘yes’ when Mark McVicar asked her to marry him last weekend.

The happy couple have been together just over a year after meeting at Carl Hester’s yard, where Mark previously worked and where Abi trains her horses. The pair, who were both at The K Club in Co Kildare last March when Abi was named The Irish Field Dressage Rider of the Year, are now running a yard together in Moreton in Marsh, Gloucestershire.

Abi told Pony Tales that Mark got down on one knee in the living room of their home. “Not very exciting but perfect all the same!” she said.