LAST Sunday saw a return to Danville House Farm in Kilkenny for the first of the South East Regional Winter dressage qualifiers, where there were lots of smiles despite the blustery and generally unsettled weather.

The youngest competitor of the day was three-year-old Matilda (Tilly) Smyth who not only competed in her first dressage test, but won the Intro class too on her pony Tin Tin C, scoring 61.8%. Not to be outdone, her older sister Heidi won the Junior Trailblazer and Preliminary classes on Harwell Sunshade with 68.6% & 64.8%, respectively.