WHILE coverage of dressage and show jumping continued throughout the year, the outdoor equestrian seasons were reflected in the Irish Horse World with hunting reports by Noel Mullins and Dickie Power running from the issue of January 6th through to March 9th and then again from November 2nd and continuing into the New Year.

Power’s wife Catherine was one of the many who supplied hunting photographs during the season, along with a former editor of these pages, Siobhan English, who is a particularly renowned photographer of hounds. It takes time to read the Irish Horse World (never mind The Irish Field in its entirety) each week, as there are so many sports and breeding matters covered by a dedicated team of writers.