COLONEL Billy Ringrose’s name is synonymous with a golden era in Irish show jumping and so it is fitting that a book on his life’s achievements is soon to be launched at the RDS, the scene of so many of his triumphs.

Fergal Ringrose has written and published a memoir of his father’s life and equestrian career, including nearly 80 images taking the reader back in time to his days as a rider on the international show jumping circuit in the 1950s and 1960s.