NEXT week, John Kennedy will become the first-ever Irish competitor to bring a team of four to the FEI Combined Ponies Driving World Championships at Le Pin au Haras in France.

It has been a long road to get there and the Tipperary native is now eagerly looking forward to taking on some of the big names in the sport. “It is thanks to a large team of people, especially my wife Jean (Rea) and Jan de Boer, that I am in this position,” Kennedy told The Irish Field.