AT 5.45pm next Friday, May 15th, mounted games teams from the East Antrim, East Down and Route Hunt Branches of Area 17 of The Pony Club will battle it out for the Wilkinson sword in the Spar Main Arena at Balmoral Show.

At that stage, the Area 17/Northern Ireland team of Leigh Graham (East Antrim), Chloe Hamilton (East Down), Tilly Ham (North Down), Farah McCall (North Down) and Molly Reid (North Down) will just have started the second session of day two of four competing in the DAKS Pony Club mounted games at the Royal Windsor Horse Show in England. The team reserve is Jessica Curran, while the team trainer is Brian Kennedy.