'It's nice to show without the firepower you can ready them as well as anyone'

I'm based in South Kilkenny, near Kilmacow, and my mother’s side of the family was always strongly involved in racing. My father had a few hunters too as a hobby.

When I was young, I had ponies and then Dad got me some hunters to start with. It was more on the hunting side of things that I started in.

I used to whip-in with the Mullinavats for a good number of years, doing some hunter trialling and it evolved from there to thoroughbreds.