SIX riders completed doubles at the show staged in Barnadown on Sunday by the South East Region of Dressage Ireland.
Joanne Logue and Kate Kerr-Horan did so at Novice and Elementary level, the pair completing on the same score (69.50%) and with the same collective mark (63) in the Novice DI24A judged by Danielle Carey (List 3A).
Logue rode her seven-year-old Irish Sport Horse mare Little Lottie (by Cormint), on whom, with the day’s highest score of 71.39%, she also landed the Elementary DI52 judged by Bernie Foley (List 1). Kerr-Horan partnered her own and her mother Pam’s 10-year-old Danish Warmblood gelding Lykkebo’s Don Akino (by Blue Hors Don Olymbrio), winner also of the Carey-judged Elementary DI51 on 69.44.
Riding her Pura Raza Española gelding Flamenco CCLXXXV (by Beethoven EM), Grainne Murphy scored twice in front of Carey, she and her black nine-year-old winning the DI65 on 66.72% and the DI67 on 64.55. Kate Murphy recorded uncontested victories in the FEI Pony Tests, scoring 68.29 in the Foley-judged Team test and 68.38 in the Individual test judged by Carey.
Grainne Murphy and Flamenco CCLXXXV at Barnadown \ Louise O'Brien Photography
In front of Foley, Sorrell Klatzko recorded her double on two different horses, topping the scores in the FEI Prix St George with her home-bred ISH gelding Gladiator (68.09%), a nine-year-old son of Sir Sansibar, and the Grand Prix on the Westphalian gelding Turbo (66.96), a bay 12-year-old by Totilas.
Also appearing twice before Foley in the dedicated Junior section, Ella Kidd saw off her sole rival to win the Preliminary DI8 on 67.69% with the ISH gelding Sandyhill Aladdin, before partnering her father Niall’s 15-year-old Sandro Boy bay to an uncontested victory in the Novice DI21 (62.76).
Sorrell Klatzko and Gladiator at Barnadown \ Louise O'Brien Photography
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Other winners as judged by Foley were Faith Jackson, who topped the overall leaderboard in the Preliminary DI8 with her ISH gelding Kilquinn Pride (67.31%), a 16-year-old Grange Bouncer grey; Melanie Hamel who landed the three-runner Novice DI21 with the unregistered 2009 bay gelding Taylor Dandy (70.52); Iris Walshe who had a solo run in the Advanced Medium DI90 on her Dutch Warmblood gelding Nirvana RH (62.50), a seven-year-old son of In Style; and Lucy McCarthy who, following the retirement of her sole rival, had little trouble winning the FEI Intermediate I with her Dutch Warmblood gelding Lloyd W (66.18), a 12-year-old Lorano chesnut.
Danielle Carey had a quiet start to her day in the Junior section, facing her biggest field in the three-runner Novice DI24a won by Ava Boyd with her Connemara gelding Ballinamoona Boy (66.50%), a 19-year-old Earl Of Newbridge grey. There were uncontested wins for Una O’Dwyer riding the former point-to-pointer Nutella Tower (65% in the Preliminary DI18), a nine-year-old Danehill Dancer gelding, and for Cael Shanahan with Suzanne Kendrick’s Anglo European gelding Santana (68.15 in the Elementary DI51), a seven-year-old by Wish Upon A Star.
Only one combination appeared before Carey in the non-restricted Preliminary DI18 and that was Lisa Keogh riding her ISH gelding Little Rock Venture (60.42%), an 11-year-old chesnut son of Beach Ball.
Carey’s winning Trailblazers were Mali Preston who scored 70.29% in the three-runner Under 10s’ class on board the 118cm Welsh gelding Bronllys Brigand, a 19-year-old grey by Cefnfedw Caradog, and Emily O’Connor who, with the Connemara gelding Kilpatrick Cascade, a 15-year-old son of Moorland Snowy River, was the sole starter in the Under 12s, where they scored 65%.