WITH the sun splitting the skies last Saturday, Inistioge in Co Kilkenny attracted good numbers between pony and horse classes.

The feature class of the day, the €5,000 1.35m Karlswood Leinster Summer Tour, sponsored by Jack Ryan, attracted a competitive field of 35 combinations. Nine produced faultless double-clear performances in a fiercely-contested jump-off. Notably, five of the six highest-placed finishers were horses aged seven or younger, underlining the depth of emerging talent and the bright future of Ireland’s next generation of show jumping stars.