THE Wicklow Area of the Irish Pony Society held their summer show last Saturday at Boswell where, thanks to the co-operation of the venue team, judges, officials, volunteers and competitors, the action was over before the heat became too intense.

Disappointingly, entries were lower than usual due to clashes on the day, the near exhaustion of travel weary parents and guardians who had gone to every Gallagher Dublin Horse Show qualifier and the fact that so many Pony Club camps had just ended or were about to start.

The absence of others was never going to trouble those who attended the show especially Kate Lawlor who was presented with the Sally Alpin trophy following her supreme championship victory on her father Brendan’s very much in-form Bombay Regal Prince. Lawlor and the British-bred gelding started their day by winning their open 153cms show hunter pony class and then the section championship.

Standing reserve supreme was Sadhbh O’Connor on her mother Aoife’s seven-year-old Irish Sport Horse gelding Griffinstown, winner en route of his Intermediate show hunter pony class and the show’s Intermediate championship.

Fionn Redmond had an excellent show, winning the day’s starter stakes championship on Stracathro Golden Sorbet and then being presented with the Morning Dew trophy having won the mini supreme championship with his mother Aine Geoghegan’s 10-year-old British-bred gelding Ronswood Silver Fox.

The reserve sash went to the Rozie Syme-owned Isla Milne-ridden 20-year-old palomino gelding Creevelea Alpha Lyra, winner earlier of the mini ridden championship and the mini working hunter championship.

The Mirah Hector trophy for champion Connemara was presented to Brooke Fitzgerald who had earlier partnered the Tuckmill Show Team’s six-year-old Banks Timber gelding Seafield River Banks to victory in the Under 16 ridden class.

Standing reserve was the Lucy Kelly-owned, Tristan Kelly-ridden eight-year-old Monaghanstown Boy gelding Garvagh Moonlight Boy who had earlier filled the same slot in the open working hunters’ championship having won his 153cms over the Johnny Kyle-built track.

Amira Curran’s good run continued on Saturday as she claimed the part-bred championship on the over 138cms class winner Tidkin Talisman, the 14-year-old British-bred skewbald gelding who also topped the line-up in the coloured class.

Chloe Lacey shared the ride with Charlotte Goor during the day on her Connemara gelding Ballylee Lemon, the six-year-old Slackport Prince gelding ending up as Mountain and Moorland champion ahead of the Northern Area raider Loneash Eirin, an 11-year-old British-bred mare ridden for Sarah Beers by Jocelyn Hutchinson.