Just when the snake of COVID-19 began to bite some 10 months ago, a fictional video story appeared on social media and was reprinted in the sports pages of the Irish Independent. It is set in a futuristic classroom for the year 2085 and the teacher is saying: “That finishes up our chapter on the year 2019. I now want you to flip to page 270 and we are going to talk about the year 2021.”
A student interrupts: “What about 2020?”
“Listen here you,” the teacher replies, “we don’t talk about 2020!”
And thus it is with our equestrian world – we would like to forget the year we have just suffered through and look forward to a better one ahead.