THE Midland and Western Region of Dressage Ireland ran a show last Sunday at Duffy’s Equestrian, where the judging duties fell to Derval Diamond (List 3) and Vida Tansey (List 1).

No doubt as a result of Storm Darragh, there were a lot of withdrawals, but one rider who did appear before Diamond was the Irish Horse World’s deputy editor Lesley Hunter-Nolan, who recorded an uncontested win in the Intro Test A on her unregistered Gleann Rua Robin (71.11%), a four-year-old Connemara gelding by Lough Fadda Rudi.

Diamond also judged both FEI Pony classes, in which the two entries, both seven-year-old gelded German Riding Ponies, were partnered by Cadhla Curran. Riding for her mother Carmel, Curran won the Team Test with HS (73.43), who had to settle for second in the Individual Test to Aoife Nee’s Maracuja AG (75.68).

Diamond’s other winners on the day were Fiona Monne with her four-year-old Irish Draught mare Eden’s Diamond Lady (71.96 in the14-runner Preliminary DI5A) and Cassandra Morris, who recorded an uncontested double with her eight-year-old Dutch Warmblood gelding Lots Of Joy (69.46 in the Elementary DI55 and 73.75 in the Medium DI65).

Nine combinations appeared before Vida Tansey in the Preliminary DI6, where she awarded her highest score, 68.08, to Keris-Mae O’Toole riding the unregistered Forest Buddy, an 11-year-old Connemara gelding by Fiona’s Man.

The O’Toole sisters, Clodagh (17) and Sadhbh (21), recorded uncontested wins in front of Tansey. The former doing so on the nine-year-old piebald mare Keadies Kaleigh (66.55) in the Novice DI27A, while Sadhbh achieved a score of 71.14 on board her six-year-old Dutch Warmblood gelding Next Diamond (71.14) in the Medium DI77.

Before the same judge, Nessa Toher Shannon landed an Advanced Medium double with her 11-year-old Irish Sport Horse mare Furst Fendi, a black daughter of Furstenball.