SOUTH Co Dublin’s Ian Cassells gave Tyrella 3 a miss but returned to John and Hannah Corbett’s seaside venue last Saturday when he denied Clare Abbott a double by landing the EI110 with Noa W, on whom he had won the same class two weeks earlier.

Cassells rode three of the 35 starters while Abbott partnered two and, on Noa W and MT Kenobis Touch respectively, they shared the lead on 20.3 penalties following Lucinda Webb-Graham’s judging of the dressage phase. Both show jumped clear within the time but picked up a small number of cross-country time penalties which sorted them out, Cassells claiming the honours on Nuala McDonald’s seven-year-old Baltic VDL gelding Noa W (21.9) while Abbott had to settle for second with MT Kenobis (24.7).