This recording is part funded by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine under the Equine Technical Support Scheme.

My name is Jay Notkin and my pony is Caramore Magic Mist, a Class 1 Connemara stallion and he's in the 153 to 158 Working Hunters.

The best Dublin advice I received is to become well prepared and rested.

What nearly stopped me from getting to Dublin was on my second qualifier where I had to compete.

I had forgotten my jogpurs and thankfully to Shane McKenna I borrowed a set of jogpurs to complete my second qualifier.

If I'd asked my pony in the interview in the morning, he would wonder what all this grooming and makeup was all for.