MANY Irish Pony Club Tetrathlon and Minimus enthusiasts have already been competing, without their ponies/horses, in the winter triathlon competitions which, following tomorrow’s North Kilkenny Branch qualifier, have their Carr & Day & Martin-sponsored finals on Bank Holiday Monday, March 18th.

Other upcoming national days of note are the two-day Area 17 Barrier Spring Festival at Castle Irvine, Necarne, to which an open invitation has been extended to IPC members (Saturday and Sunday, March 23rd and 24th), the national dressage day at CoilÓg (Friday, April 5th) and the Mackey Equestrian national hunter trials championship at Hillcrest Equestrian Centre on Saturday, April 27th.