THE first and second prize-winners in the Southside Contract & Carpet Cleaners starter stakes class didn’t contest the show hunter pony championship at the Dublin Horse Show last Sunday so they get a special mention in this page.

The red rosette was presented to, and proudly worn by, Waterford’s Hannah Mackey who won for the second year running on the eight-year-old Millcroft Beluga gelding Bunbury Suarez who is owned by her mother, Emily, and grandfather, Joe Widger.