ON their first high-profile outing together, the new partnership of Matilda Holmes and the Connemara gelding Tullaree Fear Buí were crowned winners of the British Show Pony Society performance pony championship at London International Horse Show.

Riding for her mother Zoe, 15-year-old Holmes had earlier won the not exceeding 148cms class. Standing reserve, were the not exceeding 158cms class winners Danni Radford and Angela Hunt’s eight-year-old Irish-bred gelding Made To Measure.