IRISH international rider Belinda Brereton and her 13-year-old KWPN gelding Galaxy Moone scored 71.41% for top honours in the Botanica and Brandon Steelworks Intermediate II championship.

“I’m currently training with Matt Frost and Carl Hester,” said Brereton. “It is great to get the opportunity to compete at this festival. I’m planning to campaign my horses at British Dressage Premier League shows over the next few months.”

Limerick native Tara Oliver was unopposed in the Botanica and Whyte Planning Consultants Grand Prix championship, scoring 66.09% with the Fürst Romancier gelding Fürst Romance. “It is fantastic to get to compete him in great facilities and good conditions,” said Oliver. “He has put on condition and is more engaged and I hope to compete him at the international show at Hartpury at the end of this month and at Wellington CDI in October.”

The Leinster region chairperson Petra Larkin managed to find time in her busy schedule to win the Botanica and TopSpec Intermediate I championship with her Swedish warmblood gelding Erb Welt on 65.15%.

In doing so, she denied runner-up Louise Doheny a small tour double. The Slieve Bloom Stud resident won a tightly-contested Botanica and Ladychapel Stores Prix St-Georges championship, judged by British Dressage list one judge Clare Deithrick the previous day. Fine margins separated the podium finishers with Louise and her KWPN gelding Angel D in first place on 63.97% just 0.15% ahead of Sinead McGrath and Killard Precision in second on 63.82%.

Less than a percentage point adrift, Jennifer Egan (Gabriël-Tetti) and Petra Larkin (Erb Welt) could not be separated, scoring 63.09% apiece to complete in joint-third place.