THE finals of the Stepping Stones to Success League were held on Tuesday at Wexford Equestrian where there was no surprise when the winners of the Childeric young event horse leagues were announced, both horses having led going into the finale and having won their respective classes on Tuesday.

“A superstar!” is how locally-based Louise Codd describes her Mermus R gelding Rossa Sixteen who won the four-year-old league on 35 points ahead of Richard Ames’s KEC Maximum Joe gelding Jockeyhall Maximum Cruise (28.5). Wendy Harris’s Colandro gelding Silken Icon finished third on 27 points, just 0.5 of a point in front of Ames’s OBOS Quality 004 mare, Belline Cracking Lady.