SLIGO’s Richard Howley led a great result for Irish riders in the two-star Grand Prix at Sentower Park in Belgium.

Howley was riding Michael Whitaker’s nine-year-old stallion Arlo de Blondel, who is normally ridden by his son Jack, for the first time at the venue and they were one of five combinations to kept a clean sheet in the first round of the 1.45m class.