IN her final year competing ponies, Holly Love didn’t have the season she wanted but the Meath rider was all smiles at Kilguilkey House last Sunday having won the Eventing Ireland EI110 (P) National Championship with her father Mickey’s Cloughreagh Charlie.

Up until early June, selection once again for the European pony team was very much the focus of Love but, in common with others, they had a very poor result at the international in Tattersalls after which it was decided to regroup to rebuild the confidence of pony and rider. This strategy obviously worked.