HAVING finished sixth in the 143cm Horse of the Year Show working hunter pony qualifier, no doubt Evie Kennedy was a bit disappointed with her first trip to the recent Royal Highland Show, but the Co Tipperary rider bounced back from that on Wednesday at Sceilig.

There, on the same pony, her mother Maeve’s Connemara gelding Little Dromin Phoenix (Lettermuckoo Lad - Ballindoon Dolan Sparrow, by Dolan Mick), she won the 143cm class at the fourth and final Irish Pony Society-staged qualifier for the Gallagher Dublin Horse Show.