STONEHAVEN competition and livery yard owner/rider Ciara Power recorded an all-the-way success in the EI110 class at Clyda (2) on Sunday with ESI Bethany Bay, one of the least-experienced horses in the 28-strong field.

The Waterford combination were two seconds over the time across the country but their three-phase total of 27.3 penalties still left them comfortably ahead of Jessica O’Driscoll on Shanaclough Madison (29.8) and Daniel Alderson with RCA Royal Summer (30).

All three of these horses are six-year-olds and the first two, both mares, were due to attend Le Lion D’Angers training at the National Sports Campus on Tuesday.

ESI Bethany Bay, a bay by OBOS Quality 004, was bred by the Ennisnag Stud out of the Belgian Warmblood mare Catina, a daughter of Quasimodo vd Molendreef. She did a small bit of show jumping last year with Ger O’Neill and Jason Foley.

Having been selected for the European young riders’ squad with one ex-racehorse, Kinsau, Co Westmeath’s Sofie Walshe won Sunday’s EI110 (Open) with another track graduate, the British-bred seven-year-old Herobrine who completed on his dressage score (28.5).

The Black Sam Bellamy gelding, who was the only one of the 10 starters to go clear within the time across the country, may be aimed at Millstreet while his rider concentrates on making the European team.

Having just failed to qualify with Gooseberry Hill Cruise at Scarteen on Saturday for the new Junior/Young Rider event horse class at the Dublin Horse Show, Zara Burke Ott partnered her mother Janet’s six-year-old Ballynoe Nightcruise mare to victory here in the three-runner EI110 (J) class.

It was good to see Olivia Swan bounce back from her disappointing run at the Tattersalls International Horse Trials with Rockon Pedro by guiding her mother Carol’s eight-year-old Newtown Pedro gelding to a comprehensive success in the EI110 (P) which, too, had just three starters.

Connections will be hoping that Tatts was just a one-off blip on the part of Rockon Pedro who had won at the Ballindenisk international in April and hadn’t been out of the first two in three national appearances.