THE Waterford Hunt Branch of the Irish Pony Club held the first of this year’s Connolly’s Red Mills eventing championship qualifiers last Sunday at the Bogossian family’s lovely Ballinamona estate outside Waterford city.

There were some new, beautifully-presented cross-country fences out on the track which had a good covering of grass and had been watered as had the all-weather surfaces to help keep the dust down. The organisers were full of praise for David Bogossian who went out of his way to help, allowing access to hoses in the yard to wash horses and ponies down.