ANOTHER very well supported class was the Equilume CCI3*S. The top three combinations in the class received a Equilume Light Mask to help support their horses for the rest of the season.

There was another British winner, this time it was Sam Ecroyd and Bloomfield Manuscript who took the top spot on the podium. A double clear jumping left him top of the group on his dressage score of 26.1.

Bloomfield Manuscript is by Financial Reward and was bred by Co Wicklow-based Daphne Tierney. Under Jane Bradbury, Bloomfield Manuscript won the four-year-old lightweight hunter class at the Dublin Horse Show in 2019 before being sold to England. Now owned, and previously campaigned, by Kate Walls, Ecroyd took over the reins this year and the combination have two wins at national level in the UK as well as a win earlier this year in Millstreet in the CCI3*L.

Ground Jury members, Stuart Bishnell and Agnieszka Mossakowska had John Tilley and Wellfields Casino Royale as marginal leaders after dressage on 25.9 but a rail down in the show jumping phase proved costly and dropped them to second on the leaderboard. They had the perfect prep run for their International by winning the EI115 at Hillcrest earlier this month. Filling third place was Irish Olympian Sarah Ennis and the promising grey gelding OnceUponATime on their dressage score of 30.4. Owned and bred by Deirdre Connolly, the mare was lightly campaigned last year and has made the step up to this level with a 100% cross-country clear jumping rate.