THIS year’s Irish Pony Club Minimus and Tetrathlon Championships were launched on Monday at the Kill, Co Kildare superstore of sponsor Holmestead Saddlery.

Among the guests welcomed to the venue by Bill Holmes were Eamonn Egan, John Flood, Sarah Egan, Tom O’Donnell, Mary Fitzpatrick, Sheila Gayer, Pat Walsh and members of the Kildare Hunt Branch who brought the ponies Domino and Snowball along for a photo-shoot.