AREA 8 of the Irish Pony Club staged its Festival qualifier last Saturday in Ballinasloe where the East Galway quartet of Caoimhe Ni Thuairisg (Blackfield Flame), Thie Jones (Cappa Lady), Godfrey Gibbons (Twilight Thunder) and Keelan Murray (Kelly’s Dream) won the John Ledingham qualifier.

The Robbie Bailey qualifier was won by a mixed team which comprised two Co Galway Branch members, Heather McMahon (Parkroe Joey) and Aisling Whyte (Clooneen Sile), and Galway Mid County’s Cathriona O’Neill (Melly) and Alex Bleahan (Mistress Camilla).