DECLAN Cullen’s four-star winning Traditional Irish Horse sport horse stallion Glenhill Gold sadly passed away last week at the age of 26. The coloured stallion by Saracen Hill out of the Flash Park Gold mare Travellers Gold, was foaled in 1998 by breeder David Black.

Known affectionately as ‘Tonto’, he went on to compete under Cullen up to CCI3* (now 4*) level and won the CCI3* at Ballindenisk in 2011. Writing on the Glenhill Gold Facebook page, the Cullen family said: “As a family at dawn this morning, we sadly said our goodbye to a very special horse Tonto, Glenhill Gold, who had changed our lives and others for ever with his gentle, kind nature and his ability to exceed expectations.