TWO groups of Irish Pony Club members, and their very proud connections, descended on the Curragh racecourse last Saturday for the first session of the Co Kildare track’s two-day Autumn Festival.

The first to perform were those members of the Co Clare Branch who had won the musical ride competition (for the sixth time) at the IPC Festival in Barnadown in late July and then performed ‘Clare presents the Spanish Riding School’ before a much larger audience at the Dublin Horse Show.