AMONG those competing in the Young Event-Horse Series qualifier at the Tullymurry Equestrian Centre on Wednesday was Mayobridge trainer and amateur rider Holly McGahan who returned to the sport of eventing this season having given it up when she was seven!

Holly rode her own Anglo European-registered Mr Reidi, a four-year-old bay gelding by the Holstein stallion Lougherne Carrick-A-Rede out of a mare by the thoroughbred Lakeshore Road. Although they jumped clear over the course of show jumps and cross-country fences, they lost a lot of points for being over the time allowed but the rider was very pleased with her tall, green horse.