ARRIVING at Stall Fuchs as the head show groom just after the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio De Janerio, Dublin native Sean Vard has worked for the last four years with his eyes firmly set on 2020 for the Tokyo Olympic Games.

When the news broke that the Games had been postponed by a year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Vard was admittedly heartbroken, but remains positive that the famous grey gelding Clooney 51, who he has covered almost every inch of the globe with at this stage, will be fit and ready for next year.