ALTHOUGH anything can happen of course, the Treo Eile thoroughbred to competition horse league looks to be a three-horse race going into next Tuesday’s final at Wexford Equestrian, with Serene Ace and Shes For Luck sharing the lead on 19 points apiece ahead of Selkie (16).

On Tuesday of this week, Amy Griffith claimed the win on a penalty score of 30.8 with her father Mervyn’s Shes For Luck, a five-year-old Presenting mare who finished third once in a quartet of four-year-old point-to-point maidens in the spring of 2025 when trained by Johnny Berry.

Bred by Jimmy Lawler, the bay is a half-sister to two track winners from the family of the multiple winners, and blacktype performers, Sir OJ, Annual Invictus and Creepy.

Griffith has retrained racehorses in the past and last year, as a member of the Killinick Branch, she won the Treo Eile award having partnered the highest-placed thoroughbred at Intermediate level, Wex Gal, in the Connolly’s Red Mills/Irish Pony Club national eventing championships at Tattersalls Ireland.

In winning on Tuesday, Griffith and Shes For Luck, turned the tables on fellow Killinick member Kate Jordan and Serene Ace, who had beaten them into second seven days earlier.

Supreme Ace, an unraced seven-year-old gelding by Sandmason, was bred by Claire Keegan out of the Definite Article mare Rosies Rocket, whose only runner to date, the 2017 Mahler gelding Potters Party, recorded his second career success on Wednesday at Ludlow, where he landed the hunters’ chase as the 5/4 favourite.

Jordan has given Supreme Ace two runs this year under Eventing Ireland rules, finishing second of 18 in an EI90 at Frankfort Stud late last month, but being eliminated following three refusals at a combination cross-country fence at Lisgarvan House two weeks ago.

Shes For Luck and Supreme Ace both jumped clear this year and last unlike the Hans Juergen Kuehnle-owned, Cathal Daniels-ridden Selkie, a once-raced six-year-old daughter of Valirann, who had a fence down on both occasions.

Ponies

Caroline Widger’s Connemara gelding Toorboy Dan once again topped the scores (171.2) in the Doagh Equestrian event pony class under Swedish native Matilda Kiviniemi, who also finished fifth on the same owner’s Grantstown A Touch of Class (168.6).

A five-year-old by Derrada Owen out of the Monaghanstown Barney mare Fairyhill April, Toorboy Dan was shadowed by two other Connemaras, the Sophie Orr-ridden five-year-old gelding Coumbrack Droichead (170.3), and the Rochelle Murphy-owned and ridden similarly-aged mare Adams Sash, whose total of 169.8 included the class’s highest jump score (123.8).

The highest dressage score (59.3) was recorded by Orr on Allan Seery’s Connemara gelding Aughnasilla Pat, a six-year-old son of Western Boy.