Princess shows her true colours in ‘1000’

I have been at Tattersalls the last couple of days and will be there again today.

Given my background, I love going to the eventing competitions anyway but I’m an advisor to the high performance manager, Ginny Leng – or Ginny Elliot as she is now – so it is a sort of a busman’s holiday for me.

A lot of our potential Olympic pairings are competing and with the weather likely to be good, it is an excellent opportunity to get a first-hand look at some of those that might represent Ireland in London.