KILDARE’s Sadhbh O’Connor continued her excellent start to the showing season at last Sunday’s Irish Pony Society spring show in Barnadown, where she claimed the supreme pony championship on her mother Aoife’s traditionally-bred Irish Sport Horse gelding Griffinstown.

En route to landing the show’s overall title, O’Connor and the Imperial Tiger seven-year-old won their open Intermediate show hunter/show riding type class, the Royal International Horse Show Intermediate show hunter qualifier and championship and the show’s Intermediate championship. In most instances, O’Connor and the bay finished in front of Sophie Cusack and her mother Oorla’s 17-year-old British-bred gelding Tiger Eye.