SATURDAY’s Carr & Day & Martin open working hunter pony championship at last week’s Balmoral Show was won by Elizabeth Cooke riding her aunt Katie Tobin’s Connemara gelding Tawnagh Lad who was purchased from the Donworth family in 2022.

Fourteen-year-old Cooke and the 10-year-old Classiebawn Black Jack grey, who were jumping their first working hunter round since Iverk Show last August, won their 153cm class. The in-form partnership of Evie Kennedy and her mother Maeve’s Dublin champion Little Dromin Phoenix, a 16-year-old Connemara gelding by Lettermuckoo Lad topped the final line-up in the 143cm class (and went reserve champion) as did Freddie Greene on board Hannah Horgan’s 21-year-old Stockholm Secret Envoy (by Rotherwood Secret Agent) in the 133cm class.