THE Eastern Region of Dressage Ireland staged just its second show of the year last Saturday at Marlton where there was a very good entry and the majority of the higher graded classes had at least two starters.

Finn O’Gara, who runs his OG Sporthorses schooling, livery and sales yard out of Boswell, had a rewarding day in front of Bernie Foley. The 21-year-old doubled up in the Novice BD23 (78.75%) and Elementary BD40 (77.26) on Eileen Hannaford’s seven-year-old Hanoverian mare Delores (by Dressage Royal) and landed the Preliminary BD15 on another seven-year-old, Karen Bennett’s Mestizo (69.40), an Andalusian stallion by Urco.