BELLINE Equestrian’s owner Richard Ames was kept busy last Sunday at Kilguilkey House where, as a board member of Eventing Ireland, he presented the prizes at the organisation’s National Championships.

The first of these was to Belline’s stable jockey, Robbie Kearns, who recorded the only double clear inside the time in the EI120 championship on Ames’ Irish Sport Horse gelding Ballyvillane OBOS (33.5 penalties) who had been lying third after dressage. Kearns, who also placed sixth on his own Very Dignified (50.7), rode five horses over the weekend as did Patrick Whelan who, with 2.8 cross-country time penalties, slotted into second here on the traditionally-bred ISH gelding Denis Finch Hatton (40).