THE first five all secured a ticket but there was a very tight battle for the top spot in the 153cm class at the last of the RDS working hunter pony qualifiers which was held on Wednesday at Barnadown.

The win went to Co Limerick’s Sophie Cusack riding her mother Orla’s Connemara gelding Clareville Codiac (89.5 points) with Co Meath’s Phoebe Horgan having to settle for second on her mother Hannah’s Garvagh Moonlight Boy (89.2), another Connemara gelding.