SIAN Coleman, who had a delayed start to the 2023 eventing season due to the birth of son Fred in early May, won the final CCI4*-L of the year in Ireland at Ballindenisk last weekend with Kate Jarvey’s home-bred Irish Sport Horse mare, Hush A Bye Baby.

Coleman and the 10-year-old Indocto bay, who the rider says comes into her own in long format competitions, completed on their third-placed dressage score (32.6 penalties) following two foot-perfect rounds of jumping. On their previous outing, just a week earlier in similar company at Blenheim, the Co Cork combination had fallen early on the cross-country course.