THE Bogossian family’s lovely Ballinamona estate outside Waterford City was the venue last Saturday for the first of this year’s Connolly’s Red Mills/Irish Pony Club eventing qualifiers, which was most efficiently run by the Waterford Hunt Branch.

Although some young riders probably didn’t appreciate it as much as others at the end of the day, the David Bogossian-designed, built and presented cross-country track was widely praised. So, too, were the efforts of the organising committee who, in their turn, thanked the army of officials and volunteers needed to safely run a competition such as this.