One of Ireland’s most successful show jumping riders of the 50s and 60s, and Chef d’Équipe of the famous Aga Khan team the year they completed three-in-a-row in 1979, Col Billy Ringrose has died in Dublin, aged 89.

TOP class horses featured prominently at the Clare County Show in Ennis last weekend, appropriately in the county where showjumping was invented, according to authoritative equestrian journalist Michael Slavin.