KILKENNY’s Seamus Hughes Kennedy wrote his name into the history books of equestrian sport last Sunday when he won the inaugural FEI Pony Jumping Trophy Final at Mechelen in Belgium, beating teammate Abbie Sweetnam into second place.

Riding the 12-year-old Irish Sport Horse mare Cuffesgrange Cavalidam, the 15-year-old schoolboy had to hold his nerve when in the lead and last to go of the top 10 who qualified for the deciding round.