AT the 2018 Irish Pony Club Minimus championships, the Meath Branch quartet of Isabella Gogan, Josh Williamson, Matthew Love and Emily O’Regan finished fourth in the team competition and won the riders’ trophy, having recorded four clear rounds over the cross-country course at Punchestown.

Fast forward to last Sunday’s Golden Vale Foxhounds’ point-to-point at Turtulla, where three of the team took one another on in the novice riders’ open race. This was won on the David Christie-trained Ramillies by Alan O’Sullivan, a former member of the Duhallow Branch, who was recording his second win between the flags to go with one on the track.