IRELAND’S Thomas Ryan was on form in the Seven-year-old 1.40m Final at the three-star show in Oliva, Spain last Friday, taking second place with Million’s Grey (34.36) and sixth with Happy Girl de Berg W (36.70) from a start list of 37. German rider Josch Loehden won the class with Cornets Lady 4 in a time of 33.12.

The three-star Mediterranean Equestrian Tour continued at Oliva, Spain last week, however, due to the weather, classes on Wednesday and Thursday were cancelled.

Jumping resumed on Friday, when Ireland’s Anna Carway on Ajaccio were joint second in the 1.35m Special Two-phase class. From the 64 starters, 28 combinations jumped double clear, so the time for phase two was crucial. Carway stopped the clock in 33.22 seconds – exactly the same time as Belgium’s Kurt Heyndrickx on Kerma-C – while British class winner Lauren Wilkins on Halina HL took the top spot in 32.67.

Aisling Byrne on Chin Cham Cham finished in the top 10 of the 1.30m class, when jumping clear in 71.07 to place ninth.

Cian Byrne won the day’s 1.10m class on China Man, jumping clear in a time of 60.75 seconds. His nearest challenger was French rider Saskia Nougues on Duke, who clocked 62.20.

Saturday saw a third-place finish for David Simpson on Dallco Chance in the 1.30m Two-phase class. Of the 46 starters, an impressive 34 jumped clear in round one to proceed to the jump-off, with 24 repeating a clear round second time out. Simpson’s time of 28.25 was just off the pace of class winner, Albert Pisarik on Chappo 2 (26.95), with Elona Rouselle (FRA) on Jolie de Papignies slotting into second with a time of 27.00. Robert Splaine placed eighth with Cambridge (29.73).

In the day’s 1.20m Jump-off class, Gillian Bond on Santa Fee van de Doornhaag finished eighth of 46 starters, when double clear in a time of 42.97, while Ryan finished fourth of 102 participants in the 1.40m class riding Jakarta clear in 58.11.

Bond then took fourth place in the 1.30m class on Kilmountain Saphira, jumping clear in 61.44, while Cian Byrne and China Man won another 1.10m class, when clear in 55.69.

On Sunday, Aising Byrne and Chin Cham Cham placed fifth in the Bronze 1.30m class when clear in 63.42, while Splaine and Cambridge were third in the Gold 1.30m class, with a clear round in 53.74.