IT was an excellent Easter weekend on the racecourse for past and present members of the Duhallow Branch of the Irish Pony Club and this coming on the back of some brilliant performances in the recent Area 5 arena eventing league and final at Ballindenisk.

Former member Michael O’Sullivan, who recorded a double on the opening day of the Cheltenham Festival last month, rode a winner and a second-placed horse from four rides at Fairyhouse on Saturday. The following day he was in action a lot closer to his family home in Lombardstown, at Cork Racecourse outside Mallow, where he partnered three winners, a second and two third-placed horses from seven rides.