ANNE O’Connor, executive officer of Treo Eile, attended Wednesday’s first leg of the Stepping Stones to Success league, where she was not only delighted that nine of the 10 entries stood their ground in the thoroughbred class, but that there were a number of new faces among the riders.

One of these was Brittas Bay-based Ellen Carroll who won, on her dressage mark (30), with Simon, whose name is not registered with Weatherbys. An eight-year-old by September Storm, the bay was bred by Eammon and Shauna Rice out of the unraced Supreme Leader mare Snob’s Supreme, a half-sister to the Religously gelding Macs Joy, whose nine wins included four Grade 1 hurdle races.