Credit: Trevor Meeks Tributes have been paid to a homebred eventing star who overcame a tricky start in life to win at the top of the sport. Bit Of A Barney, who took Louise Harwood to her first CCI5*, died in December aged 25 following a stellar career and a happy retirement. “He was the first horse we bred out of Gerfuffle — we had her as a point-to-pointer and I decided she was going to be my eventer,” Louise told H&H. “She went from never having done a circle in her life aged 12 to the junior final trial. She was in foal with Barney towards the end of the last season I evented her, so Barney had already been eventing with me even before he was born.