IRISH-produced ponies recorded their best results at last week’s Horse of the Year Show in Friday’s working hunter section where, on her third competitive visit to the Birmingham extravaganza, Nancy Lyons Teehan won the open 133cms class on her mother Louise Lyons’s Dartans Séoda Bán.

Easily the youngest pony among the 17 entries, the five-year-old palomino mare jumped an excellent clear round for the highest score in the division. Her stable-companion, the 11-year-old grey gelding Noble Jasper Carrot, who finished sixth, was ridden by Cuffesgrange show jumper Rachel Sheehan who had undergone a crash course in showing over the previous three weeks.