ELAINE O’Connor had a pole down show jumping in the EI90 at Hazeldene Farm last Satuday with the impressive dressage winner Tullymurry Masha but, clear inside the time across the country, she still won the 17-strong class with over six points in hand when completing on 27 penalties.

Owned by the rider’s husband David O’Connor and bred by her mother Marian Turley, this eight-year-old Irish Sport Horse mare by Camiro de Haar Z has won three times this season and has never finished worse than seventh in five other completed starts (she was withdrawn once).

The bay, who O’Connor has entered in the EI90 national championship this weekend, is the second of seven foals registered on CapallOir out of the traditionally bred Tullymurry Summer. That Song Of Freedom mare’s most recently recorded produce, a 2023 colt by Singulaer della Caccia, was bred by Barry Fletcher not Turley.

Sam Forbes and DCS Millhouse Platinum, who too lowered a coloured pole to finish second on 33.3, are due to renew rivalry with the winners this weekend at Kilguilkey House.

Casey Webb, who earlier recorded an uncontested victory in the EI110 (Open) on Valerie Breen’s home-bred Traditional Irish Horse Ballygreenan Break, an eight-year-old mare by Pointilliste, finished third, on her dressage score, with Robert and Jane Huey’s home-bred TIH mare Knockaleery Mill Leat (34.5), a five-year-old grey by Watermill Swatch.

Ten combinations erred in the show jumping ring, one was eliminated for three refusals early on the cross-country course while four others had a stop apiece.

Riding for his grandfather Denis Currie, the Northern Region’s multiple EI110 (Amateur) champion, Isaac McCarthy made it third time lucky when landing the 19-runner EI80 on his dressage score with Hollywood Pippin (27.3 penalties).

EI80 podium

The National Grassroots Champion at this level, Zach Watson, also completed on his flatwork mark to place second on Toberpatrick Gentle Dove (29.5). Suzanne Hill finished third on the dressage leader Butter whose total of 29.6 included 4.8 cross-country time penalties. Both Watson and Hill are competing in the TRI Equestrian EI80 national championship this weekend at Kilguilkey House.

McCarthy also competes as a member of the Iveagh Branch of The Pony Club with the Connemara mare Hollywood Pippin and the pair did themselves, their Branch and Area 17 proud at the Pony Club regional championships in Scotland earlier this summer when winning in show jumping and dressage and placing third in eventing.

Bred at her Hollywood Connemara Pony Stud in Co Wicklow by Debbie McCann, Hollywood Pippin is by the great performance influence I Love You Melody out of the Lissduff Revel mare Emilys Westside Light.