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Pony Club fixtures

THE return to school does not mean an end to Irish Pony Club activities for the year as the Shillelagh & District Branch is running a hunter trials tomorrow at the Tinahely Riding Club grounds in Coolboy, Co Wicklow.

Ten IPC members have been selected to take part in the jockeys’ skills course at the Racing Academy & Centre of Education in Kildare Town next Friday and Saturday, September 7th and 8th.

They are Tipperary’s Leah Rumble and Tom Hayden, Laois’s Lauren Doyle and Patrick Sheeran, Erin Dunseath (Wexford), Elizabeth Wallace (Co Limerick), Katie Donlon (Westmeath), Niamh Flinter (Kildare), Katie Mulligan (Galway Mid County) and Aoife Long (Meath).

The following day, Sunday, September 9th, the finals of the IPC’s show jumping classic, with prizes sponsored by Mackey, take place at the Coilóg Equestrian Centre in Kilmeague. Members who have qualified for this fixture should note that entries close at midnight on Thursday next, September 6th.

We will follow up on other IPC dates in next Saturday’s issue of The Irish Field.