THERE were some noteworthy individual performances throughout The Irish Field-sponsored dressage section at last weekend’s AIRC Festival at the Mullingar Equestrian Centre.

Ashbrook’s John Gavin recorded a double on Saturday, landing the RC Elementary on his Irish Sport Horse gelding Holywell Spark (74.79%), a seven-year-old bay by Cobra, and the young horse class on his ISH gelding Holywell Contender (80.83), a five-year-old home-bred bay by Contendro I.

Leitrim chair Helen McLoughlin matched that feat on the first day but on the same horse, winning the RC Preliminary 2 (71.45%) and the RC P1 and P2 Prix Caprilli (77.22) with her skewbald gelding Battenburg, a 16-year-old son of KMS Flash.

The RC P3 and RC N Prix Caprilli was won by Mullingar’s Niamh Macken on Diamond King Henry (71.94). This eight-year-old gelding by King Alton, who was bred in Co Westmeath by Michael Reynolds out of the Rosheen Yeats mare Wicklow Diamonds, won the Horse Sport Ireland-sponsored Irish Draught special award.