AT Wednesday’s Stepping Stones to Success League final in Wexford Equestrian, DEN Stride Stables’ Debbie Flavin partnered Geraldine Power’s Pine View Ice Cool to win the Doagh Equestrian event pony class in which he and his 11 rivals were all registered Connemaras.

The five-year-old Ice And Fire d’Albran grey, who was bred in Co Louth by Sharon Walsh out of Cool Secret (by Coill Rua Champ), topped the final leaderboard on 208.8 points. Ellen Tracey finished second on her own and Stephen Greene’s Ard RI Roisin five-year-old Clounanna Danny Boy (204.1) with Alannah Cole filling third place on Sylvia Cole’s Kilpatrick Sparkle (199.6).