TRISTAN Kelly made his Eventing Ireland debut last Sunday at Frankfort Stud, where the 13-year-old marked the occasion by winning the Coffee Express EI90 (P) class with Andrew and Maria Tyrrell’s Fiona’s Fionn.

The Co Wicklow rider, who is also a very keen hockey player, has spent the last two years getting to know the now 18-year-old Connemara gelding, competing him successfully in working hunter classes and, as a member of the Shillelagh Branch, with the Irish Pony Club.