THE only Munster rider to top the scores in their RDS working hunter pony qualifying class at Banner Equestrian last Sunday was Co Tipperary’s Evie Kennedy, who did so in the 143cm division on her mother Maeve’s ever-consistent Little Dromin Phoenix.

Kennedy and the 17-year-old Connemara gelding, who won their final at Dublin last August, completed on a total of 103.5 which left them two points clear of another in-form pairing, Aoife Brennan and her mother Aine’s 10-year-old gelding Captain Bailey who won their show hunter pony class at the RDS last summer.