WHILE they were only showing the one pony on the one day at this year’s Dublin Horse Show, it was a long Saturday for Marianne Power and her husband Bill Toomey as their daughters Penny and Millie were in action on Rookery Haribo at opposite ends of the timetable. It was also a very successful day.

Eight-year-old Penny, who is now too tall for lead rein, was first to compete as her Oblique Displays first ridden class started at 8am in front of Andrew Bowie who had the pair topping his final line-up in the 19-runner class. Immediately behind Toomey and Rookery Haribo were Sophia Martin and Lisa Spratt’s 18-year-old gelding Magical Merlin followed by Fionn Redmond and his mother Aine Geoghegan’s Holthall Gladiator, an eight-year-old Welsh gelding by Islyn Bond.