SISTERS Abi and Brooke Kenny both bagged golden tickets for the Connemara performance hunter classes at the Gallagher Dublin Horse Show, when winning at the qualifier in Forth Mountain last Saturday.

Abi (17) won Section A of the eight to 15-year-old class on the 2018 Silver Shadow gelding Hogan The Brave, who she has also qualified for the 158cm working hunter class at Dublin. Brooke finished joint first in Section B of the five to seven-year-old class on board another son of Silver Shadow, the 2018 grey Cupid’s Magic Shadow, who she has also qualified for the 153cm working hunter class in August. Both ponies are owned by the riders’ father Graham Kenny who, speaking also for his wife Sandy, the young riders’ flatwork coach, said: “Every year, we ask the girls if they would like to go away on a two-week holiday or qualify for the RDS and the answer has always been Dublin. This year, Brooke qualified twice, despite sitting her Junior cert at The King’s Hospital, where the girls are weekly boarders.”