THE Carlow Hunt Branch of the Irish Pony Club held their Connolly’s Red Mills/IPC eventing qualifier on Sunday, June 7th at Lisgarvan House, where heavy rainclouds threatened from all directions, but never got to the Corrigan family’s well-known international eventing venue.

With 268 entries spread over 11 classes, organisers, officials and volunteers had to keep things moving like clockwork, and they did, from the start of the tack inspections before dressage on to the show jumping rings, where Michael Doyle presented two inviting but adequately challenging tracks and, finally, on to Clive Corrigan’s cross-country course.