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Limerick club win big at Irish Pony Club National Festival

Scarteen Hunt Pony Club won the Alice Mernagh Cup at the Irish Pony Club National Festival recently

Limerick club win big at Irish Pony Club National Festival

Members of the victorious Scarteen Hunt Pony Club

Reporter:

Oisin Nolan

10 Aug 2025 2:30 PM

Limerick's Scarteen Hunt Pony Club won big at the Irish Pony Club National Festival recently.
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The SJ team of four qualified at the area qualifier in Crecora in May for the festival that takes place every year in Barnadown Equestrian, County Wexford.

Scarteen's team consisted of Lauren MacMahon (Ballybricken), Lucy Ryan (Oola), Beau Bourke (Thomastown), Hannah McCoy (Kilmallock)

Each member of the team went clear in round one of the show jumping competition of 31 teams from across the country.

They entered the second round jump off with 12 other participants and one person from each team had to go against the clock with the fastest score recorded being the winner. 

Lauren and her pony Loughwell Lucas jumped an exceptionally fast round to take the team into first by just 0.2 of a second. 

The Scarteen Hunt Pony Club also had Sarah Ryan take second place in the open individual class and Lauren MacMahon took home third place in the u12s combined training class.
District Commissioners of the club are Louise Rennie and Irene Casey and the trophy was presented on the day by Alice Mernagh.

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