THREE Dressage Ireland-affiliated shows were held last weekend starting on a sunny Saturday at Knockagh View, where the Northern Region staged the third leg of its winter league.

The judges on duty were Joanne Jarden (List 1) and Lucinda Webb-Graham (List 4), with the latter awarding her highest score of the day to Lorraine Gibson and Miss Maisy Raine (79.57%), the only registered combination in the four-runner Intro C.

Category 1 rider Gibson and her 13-year-old piebald mare also topped Jarden’s scores (68.54%) in the Preliminary BD19 ahead of Lisa Dundee (Category 3) with Glenomore Tom (67.50). Third (66.67) on the overall leaderboard here, freelance coach Craig Hills achieved the highest score in the Webb-Graham-judged DI6 with the Anglo European Studbook-registered High Hopes Tuxita (72.31), a seven-year-old bay mare by Maximillian Voltucky.

At Novice level, Dundee partnered Patricia Connon’s home-bred Irish Sport Horse mare RoundThorn Nice N Easy (76.46%) to top the scores in the Webb-Graham-judged BD23 with fellow Category 3 rider Barbara Ellison next best with O’Lilly (75.63). In the Jarden-assessed DI27A where they achieved a score of 70.69, Dundee and Connon’s Formidable five-year-old had to give best to Barbara Hanna and her home-bred 11-year-old Rock Shenanigans (71.72), a traditional Irish Sport Horse by the Connemara stallion Bobby Sparrow Blue.

Webb-Graham’s winner of the six-runner Elementary BD53 was Robyn McMurray with her ISH gelding Rocco Banana Man (71.76%). However, in the Jarden-judged DI56A, in which there were just three starters, McMurray and the Cyrano 17-year-old had to settle for second (62.90) behind fellow Category 2 rider Sharon Getty and her ISH mare Taptoo (64.03), a nine-year-old daughter of Shannondale Sarco St Ghyvan.

Casey Webb won both Medium classes on board Aprils Pacino Time, a 10-year-old ISH mare by Pacino who has evented at CCI3*-L level; both Advanced Medium classes went the way of Lucy Adams riding Esdals King W.A., her 10-year-old New Forest gelding by Reekamps Eclips; and Jarden, who judged those four classes, awarded a score of 72.75% to Leanne Montgomery and Aughabeg Misty Patch, Kerrie Hall’s 17-year-old skewbald gelding by Aughabeg Patch, the only starters in the Para Grade IV Novice class.