SWEDISH native Matilda Kiviniemi rode two greys for Co Waterford’s Caroline Widger in the Doagh Equestrian event pony class at Wexford Equestrian on Tuesday, winning, comprehensively on Toorboy Dan (183.6) and placing fifth with Grantstown Touch Of Class (170.5), a four-year-old filly by Annagh Arty.

This was a second successive victory in the class for Kiviniemi and the Connemara gelding Toorboy Dan, a John Hynes-bred five-year-old by Derrada Owen out of the Monaghanstown Barney mare Fairyhill April, who had been on the mark here during round two. The pony had one outing under ShowJumping Ireland rules last year, going double clear in a 148cm 80cm class at September’s all-Ireland interprovincial finals in Barnadown, where he was ridden by the owner’s son Tosh Widger O’Riordan.

Another senior rider, the locally-based Louise Codd, finished second (177.4) with the ISH mare GPS New Moon Rising. This six-year-old Cavalier Land bay was bred by her owner Redmond Barry out of the unraced Shantou mare The Big Dawn whose family, in its further removes, features the great Dawn Run.

Pony rider Emily Flavin-Redmond finished third (175) with her mother Debbie’s Connemara mare Galtee Honeysuckle, a five-year-old daughter of Kinvara Boy out of an I Love You Melody dam. Another five-year-old Connemara mare, Adams Sash (by Cloonbán Adam), finished fourth (174) in the hands of her owner, senior rider Rochelle Murphy.