HALLOWEEN open day at Polo Wicklow began with the East Wicklow Harriers leaving the farmyard in a wonderful colourful stream of hounds and horses to follow a scent laid across local fields.

Visitors were introduced to a cross section of the ponies patiently waiting in their stables before getting ready to play in the main match pitching Dublin against Wicklow. Among the ponies on show were the black stallion Michael Jackson as well as Danny Boy, the stray coloured pony who arrived three years earlier and has now played his first chukka. These two youngsters are just getting used to stable life, with the experienced ponies all out on the day.