MANY congratulations to Ella Shanahan, a former member of the Limerick Hunt Branch of the Irish Pony Club, who won the open race at Cragmore on Sunday, January 25th, on her first ride in a point-to-point.

The Clarina native, who is studying for a Bachelor of Arts degree at the Mary Immaculate College in Limerick, landed the three-runner race by half a length on the French-bred gelding In Excelsis Deo. That eight-year-old Saddex bay is owned and trained by Enda Bolger for whom Ella works when not in college.