SWEDEN-based Tipperary native Thomas Ryan has gone through a harrowing six weeks with his horses battling the effects of the neurological form of the Equine Herpes Virus-1 (EHV-1) at the show jumping tour in Valencia, Spain.

Sadly, Ryan lost two horses to the deadly virus – his top Grand Prix horse, the nine-year-old gelding Quintano (Quality Time TN x Carthago Z), and the six-year-old gelding Smokey (Stakkato Gold x Espri), both owned by Jumper Horses Sweden.