THE Laois Hunt Branch of the Irish Pony Club attracted its usual large crowd to the Connolly’s Red Mills qualifier at Stradbally last Sunday.

One of the main talking points was the victory of Emer Flynn in the novice intermediate class, as the Westmeath member completed on the score she was awarded by Fiona Loughnane in the dressage arena of 9.6 penalties. Flynn rode her 10-year-old Welsh gelding Manmoel Briant.