LOCALLY-based senior rider Louise Codd won the Doagh Equestrian event pony final and league at Wexford Equestrian on Tuesday with the Irish Sport Horse mare GPS New Moon Rising.

The six-year-old Cavalier Land bay was bred by her owner, agricultural advisor Redmond Barry, and is the only foal listed on CapallOir out of the unraced The Big Dawn. That 2013 Shantou mare, whose family features the great Dawn Run in its further removes, has since produced three thoroughbred foals registered with Weatherbys viz colts in 2023 and 2024 by Workforce and Dee Ex Bee respectively and a filly last year by Success Days.

“Red broke the pony himself and got her going, but she got a bad prod one day on a hunt canter and had to be left off for a time,” revealed Codd. “The plan was to sell her after the Stepping Stones, but I think Red will now hold on to her for his daughters Freya, Pippa and Thea who, in turn, will do eventing and show jumping on the mare with the Killinick Pony Club.

“She had done very little when I got her about six weeks ago, but has really come on a lot since then,” continued Codd. “Gillian Kyle was very impressed with her improvement on the flat. She is a very intelligent pony.”

Treo Eile final

Codd didn’t rush off following her wins, as she had to oversee her daughter Aria (eight) make a presentation at the conclusion of the Treo Eile thoroughbred to competition horse class.

Here, there were different final and league winners with senior rider Nicky Roncoroni landing Tuesday’s decider on Debbie Mangan’s French-bred gelding Easy Game, who bounced back from a very poor performance seven days earlier to complete on his winning dressage score of 26.2 penalties.

The 12-year-old bay by Barastraight, who is out of the Lavirco mare Rule Of The Game and who last ran in early August 2024, recorded 15 wins over hurdles and fences, many at Grade 2 level, from 42 starts for Willie Mullins.

Although having to settle for second (27.5 penalties) on Tuesday, Kate Jordan won the league (32.5 points) with her mother Emer’s Serene Ace, an unraced gelding by Sandmason. The seven-year-old, who is out of Claire Keegan’s Definite Article mare Rosies Rocket, was a €33,000 purchase by Monbeg Stables at the 2022 Goffs Land Rover Sale.

Serene Ace has had two outings under Eventing Ireland rules this year, finishing second in an 18-runner EI90 class at Frankfort Stud, but then being eliminated across the country in the Treo Eile-sponsored EI100 class for thoroughbreds at Lisgarvan. Joint-third in the final on 37.2, Cathal Daniels did enough to fill the runner-up slot in the league with Hans Juergen Kuehnle’s Selkie (28) and thus won the Irish Horse Welfare Trust bonus for the highest-placed horse in the league who had raced. The Valirann six-year-old pulled up on her only run in a mares’ maiden at Tullaherin this time last year.

Junior rider Amy Griffith didn’t have the best of days on her father Mervyn’s She’s For Luck in the final, but the five-year-old Vadamos mare was leading novice horse in the league and thus won the William Codd trophy. Presenting the trophy in memory of her late father, Aria Codd was joined by the above-mentioned Pippa (10) and Thea (nine) Barry, her cousins.