READERS of this page are mainly interested in Connolly’s Red Mills sponsorship of the Irish Pony Club’s eventing championships but the Co Kilkenny animal feed company is also behind a series of ridden hunter championships which will culminate in a final at Tattersalls Show on Sunday, July 21st.

There was a qualifier last weekend at Charleville where the champion was Woodfield Xtra, who was fifth on the second of two EI90 outings last autumn. The six-year-old gelding was ridden by his owner, and breeder, Rosemary Connors, a former member of the Waterford Branch. Rosemary credits the Pony Club movement for building on what she learned at home about stable management and turn-out while also having great fun riding her ponies.