Young, old, brave and bould keep coming to Spancilhill

“She’s rough and ready. She’s not shampooed.”

Mid-afternoon at the rain-sodden Spancilhill horse fair and trader Derry O’Donoghue isn’t sugar-coating his sales pitch ! to a prospective buyer examining the teeth of his three-year-old mare.

“She is looking her worst. She’s hungry. She needs grass. She will only get better.”