THE Tipperary Area of the Irish Pony Society held its Spring Show on Sunday, March 22nd at the Tipperary Equestrian Centre outside Thurles, where they ran the working hunter section in the sun-kissed outdoor sand arena, while the ridden classes were staged indoors.

Tony Ennis, who judged the indoor action, found his supreme champion, Emily Purcell’s British-bred mare Rockbury Amelia, in the show hunter pony section where the 10-year-old chesnut first won her 133cm class under Ada Purcell Logue. Here, Imogen Lawless-Greene stood reserve with the six-year-old bay mare Moonlite Gone With The Wind, winner of the 153cm class.