WATERFORD’s Hannah Mackey headed into her Leaving Certificate exams this week on the back of a win in the 153cm class at the second of the RDS working hunter pony qualifiers, which was run by the Irish Pony Society at Raheen na Gun Stud last Sunday.

Eighteen-year-old Mackey and her mother Paula Widger’s year older Connemara gelding Ella’s Melody (I Love You Melody - Ella’s Glory, by Windy Day), who had finished 12th at Banner, claimed the top spot here having amassed 95 marks.