Britain and Ireland to go head-to-head in expanding event

A field in Oxfordshire is the venue for a competition involving six Cheltenham Festival-winning riders that takes place later this month.

Kingston Blount, just off the M40, will on Friday May 26 host the fifth Anglo-Irish Point-to-Point Challenge, involving teams of four men and four women from either side of the Irish Sea riding horses who most of them will never have seen, let alone schooled.

In previous years the leading rider during the current season was given the top-rated horse, and so on down the list, but this time horses will be allotted via a draw.