NEARLY €3,000 was raised for Bumbleance (the Children’s National Ambulance Service) and Wexford Hospital St Gabriel’s children’s ward at a recent fun and educational novice one-day event run by the Island Branch of the Irish Pony Club at the home of Gary and Dale Adams.

Over 100 people from as far afield as Youghal, Laois, Tipperary and Bray as well competitors from the neighbouring clubs –Shillelagh, Killinick, Wexford and Wicklow – attended the event which was staged to introduce young and inexperienced children to competition with coaching support from Dale and the day’s dressage judge, Jillie Rogers.