WATERFORD’s Emily Widger and husband Eamon Mackey have two sons, Eamon and Joe, who play hurling and two daughters, Emma and Hannah, who regularly feature in these pages as riders of very successful show ponies, competing both on the flat and in performance classes.

At the recent Irish Pony Society two-day championship show at Hollypark Stables, it was Hannah who fared much the better, concluding the two-day fixture with victory in the Orchard Equestrian diamond supreme championship of show on board The General. Standing reserve were Penny Twomey on the mini champion, Rookery Haribo, with Katie Wyse filling the second reserve slot on Leave It To You, the show hunter pony champion.