THE jury is still out whether splitting the in-hand classes and ridden classes on separate days is the right thing for the spectacle of the Connemara Pony Festival, but one person who didn’t mind was Zoe Price who was called forward as the Supreme Ridden Champion on Thursday afternoon on her first visit to Clifden with Lough Derg Star.

Price made the trip to Connemara after winning the four and five-year-old ridden class at the Dublin Horse Show just seven days earlier and she won the equivalent here with the five-year-old bay gelding Lough Derg Star, in front of judges Pam Prickett and James McWeeney.