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H is father was an international show jumper and his mother a three day event rider so naturally Mark started riding at an early age. At the family yard based in Ardee, Co Louth Mark worked with his father and had a lot of success early on including a team bronze medal at the European Pony Championships and a Young Rider National champion title in 2005.

He also represented Ireland in the 2004 Junior European Championship in Villamoura Portugal. 
In 2009, Mark left his father's stables in Ireland and moved to Italy where he rode horses in a trading stable in Cervia for two years. Starting in 2011 he joined the stable of the Italian family Valenzano-Menada in San Remo and rode their horses at the top level.

It was during this time that he was given the opportunity to ride on the prestigious Global Champions Tour for over four years with many great results. In 2015 he decided to move to Geneva to start his own business „La Tuilière Competition” together with his partner Charlotte Mordasini, member of the Swedish show jumping team.

In 2017 after two years building a string of horses for the top level, he made it back into the top 80 of the Longines Ranking list and was a regular face on the Irish national team for Nations Cups. He was also reserve rider for the gold medal wining team in the European Championships in Gothenburg and finished the year with a qualification for the FEI World Cup Finals in Paris in April 2018.

F ollowing in her mother and grandmother’s footsteps she started riding at the age of 5 and fell in love with show jumping competition. 
She worked her way up on the French national circuit for young riders up to the junior international level. In 2007 she won the bronze medal at the French ladies Championship aged only 19. She also represented France at two Young Rider European Championships in 2008 in Prague and 2009 in Hoofdorp (NED).

In 2012 Charlotte graduated from the Institute of Finance and Management (IFM) in Geneva with a Bachelor degree and two years later completed her Masters degree in International Trade from the Ecole Superieur de Gestion (ESG) in Paris in 2014. During her studies she kept riding at a 3 and 4 star level and decided later to return to her family roots and took the Swedish nationality.

In 2015 she started representing Sweden in competition and thanks to many great results was soon fully part of the Swedish national team. She was given the chance to go to the European Championships in Aachen that same year and the following year was reserve rider at the Olympic Games in Rio. 
Since 2015 she runs her own business „La Tuilière Competition” with her partner Mark McAuley member of the Irish team.

2017 marked a significant year for Charlotte as she sold her two best horses to the USA : Tiny Toon Semilly and Romane du Theil and in February 2018 gave birth to hers and Marks first child. She began competing again in April 2018 wth a string of younger horses and fully motivated to again represent Sweden at the highest level.