THE Irish Pony Club’s annual instructors’ training day will take place at the Emerald Equestrian Centre outside Enfield on Sunday, February 9th, when the main topic will be ‘Improving cross-country riding for the coming season’.

Following registration and an information and discussion session on the IPC’s efficiency tests, attendees will be addressed by French international course builder and designer Alain Ponsot who was course builder at the World Equestrian Games at Pratoni, Italy in 2022 and at the Pony Europeans in Le Mans, France the following year.