BASED two miles from Claregalway, Badgerhill Farm is more known for producing young horses but Mermus R Diamonds was bred here. I used to buy three-year-olds to sell as ridden four and five-year-olds, like Electric Cruise. Owned with Brian Cassidy Snr, he was bought as a three-year-old in Goresbridge and went to the 2012 London Olympic Games with Joseph Murphy.

Badgerhill Cruise was another Goresbridge three-year-old buy. She won the Horse Board championship with Clem McMahon and went on to jump in the World Breeders final in Lanaken. Injury forced her into retirement as a seven-year-old but we felt she would have gone all the way.