DESPITE all the reports of flooding in the south east last weekend, Orla Roche and Pat Peare were open for business at their Wexford Equestrian Centre, where, on Saturday, they hosted a leg of the TRI Equestrian interschools show jumping league and, on Sunday, the second of two Plusvital Spring Series qualifiers being run at their Tomhaggard venue.

While her mother Debbie finished among the ‘also rans’ with three young horses, Carlow Pony Club member Emily Flavin-Redmond made it third time lucky in the South Leinster Region, when landing the 18-runner CT80 class on her winning dressage score (28.25 penalties) with the much-admired Connemara mare Galtee Honeysuckle.