TWO riders who featured in these pages during lockdown partnered winners as the Stepping Stones to Success league for young event horses, which was postponed from the spring, got underway at Wexford Equestrian on Tuesday.

First up, Louise Codd landed the Childeric four-year-old section on her own Mermus R gelding Rossa Sixteen. “It was the perfect start,” said Codd. “The sun shone all day and this year’s format of show jumping in the new sand arena and then crossing the Melling Road, as I called it, into the old arena in front of the house for the cross-country phase, worked perfectly.