IN common with last year, the 2025 Treo Eile league for thoroughbred horses competing in the Connolly’s Red Mills Irish Pony Club eventing series was dominated by members of the Killinick Branch and once again the winner was Grace Day who, on Sunday, topped the final leaderboard on 56 points with Ask Jim.

Although she only finished third, on her dressage score, in her arena at Tatteralls Ireland, Day also won the Foran Equine league on Ask Jim, a 14-year-old gelding by Germany. The bay, who is out of the Be My Native mare Native Pine, failed to worry the judge in three point-to-point maidens and one maiden hurdle between the end of October 2016 and mid-July 2017 when trained in Co Wexford by Richie Rath.

Kate Jordan finished second in the league with Serene Ace (38 points), a 2019 Sandmason gelding who unseated his rider and pulled up on his two starts in four-year-old point-to-point maidens in the spring of 2023. He was then trained in Co Wexford by Cormac Doyle who had paid €33,000 for the bay at the previous year’s Goffs Land Rover Sale

Juliet Fingleton, a member of the Laois Branch, broke the Killinicks’ stranglehold on the placings when finishing third with Vocal Velocity (30 points). Now 13 years of age, the Vocalised gelding last ran in August 2016 when, trained on The Curragh by Brendan Duke, he made his fourth start in the colours of Jackie Bolger. The latter’s husband Jim bred the bay out of the Sadler’s Wells mare Voronova who was the dam of four winners on the flat, three of whom also won over jumps as did one other.

The not-for-profit organisation Treo Eile, which provides assistance to racehorse trainers and owners who wish to rehome and retrain racehorses once their track careers are over, had a busy weekend. They ran the final of the Tattersalls Ireland Treo Eile showing pathway series at Iverk Show on Saturday (see page 77), sponsored a class at Moate show on Sunday and sponsored a prize for the highest-placed thoroughbred at the Lisgarvan International horse trials, which concluded on Sunday.