SUMMERHILL’s Michael McNally decided he had too much on his plate to ride at his family’s Clonmahon House on Saturday which is just as well as he would never have had time to warm-up such were the many times he was stopped to be congratulated on staging this truly top-class fixture.

With a blank canvas to begin with, McNally wasn’t working around an old hunter trial track or similar, and so could design a true event course – and venue - for this first year with plans for bigger and better into the future. From the minute one drove into Clonmahon House one was struck by the professionalism.