WEXFORD’s Louise Codd, who won the four-year-old young event horse championship at Dublin in 2019 on Future News, has qualified two geldings for next Tuesday’s Horse Sport Ireland-sponsored Young Eventhorse Series RDS national equestrian championship at Lambertstown.

Winner of the Traditional Irish Horse Association award when third at Scarteen, Trevor Horgan’s Hidden Eclipse is by the deceased thoroughbred stallion Chinook Eclipse. He is the first foal ever bred by Co Tipperary’s Caitriona Morrissey, a former editor of the Irish Horse World section of The Irish Field and now news editor of this publication’s sister paper, the Irish Farmers Journal.

The bay, who won a leg of the Stepping Stones to Success League earlier in the year, is out of the Templebready Fear Bui mare Templebready Jocelyn. Former National Hunt jockey Horgan purchased Hidden Eclipse from his breeder as a foal.

Codd will also be on board Trade Horse’s Mister Morandi, a chesnut gelding by the Giant’s Causeway stallion Island Commander out of the Colourfield mare Tombreane Lass.

Newcastle, Co Dublin-based Ian Cassells, who partnered Major Cross into the reserve slot behind Codd and Future News at Dublin two years ago, heads to Lambertstown with the traditionally bred Inquisitor. By the thoroughbred stallion Coroner, the gelding was home-bred by Co Kildare veterinary surgeon Bridget McGing out of the Coolcorron Cool Diamond mare Diamond Fleck.

A fourth TIH-registered entry is the mare Nazar Imp, John Bryne’s home-bred daughter of the thoroughbred Nazar out of Imperial Miss (by Master Imp). The bay will be ridden by Patrick Whelan who won the 2017 championship at the RDS on the Codd-produced Brookfield Cavalier Cruise.

The only other entry by a thoroughbred stallion is Belline Gucci (72.9%) who will be ridden for Richard Ames by Laura Birley. By the Dutch-bred Watermill Swatch, the bay gelding is out of the Silvano mare Lordspark Silver. Ames and Birley will also be represented by KIEF Amazing Marco, while the owner has a third horse qualified in the Patrick Byrne-ridden Belline Newmarket Delight.

YES league winner

The Horse Sport Ireland-sponsored Young Eventhorse Series league was won narrowly by the mare Diamond Mistress, one of two horses who will be ridden in the four-year-old championship by Sian Coleman. The bay daughter of the Holstein stallion Diarado, who gained her 20 points when winning at Scarteen and Forth Mountain, was home-bred by Kate Jarvey out of the Master Imp mare Shes My Master (CCI3*-S).

Master Imp is also damsire of Coleman’s other qualified ride, Maurice Coleman’s Kilroe Tiger who is by the Dutch Warmblood stallion Ringwood Hype.

Second in the YES league on 19 points was MBF Silver Badge who is ridden for his American owner, Carrie Meehan, by Co Meath’s Nicola Ennis. This bay by the Dutch Warmblood Silvano, who topped the leaderboard at Tullylish, is out of the unraced Beneficial mare My Rochestown Lady.

Ennis, who won the five-year-old championship at Dublin in 2017 on the Jody Madden-owned mare Flemingtown Ruby, has the most recent form over the Lambertstown track as she landed the Open Derby there last September on Killossery Kitten with whom she was third in the EI110 for six-year-olds at Punchestown last Saturday.

Also out of a thoroughbred mare, in this case the non-winning pointer Carroll Eile (by Carroll House), is David Splaine’s home-bred Coolcorron Beacon Hill (71.5%), a son of the Dutch Warmblood Numero Uno who will be ridden by Jesscia O’Driscoll.

Co Wicklow veterinary surgeon and equine dentist Aoife Quigley won the five-year-old championship at the RDS in 2018 on Kilcandra Vanessa (CCI3*-S) and has qualified for Lambertstown with that Orestus mare’s 2017 full-brother, Kilcandra JT. The pair are out of Kilcandra Lily De Noche (by Orbis).

Louise Bloomer will compete on the league third Shannondale Levi (14 points), her own and Jinnie Webb’s bay gelding by Shannondale Sarco St Ghyvan, while staunch YES supporter John Bannon has qualified the Tolan R gelding Chance Given and the Future Trend mare Greannanstown Lockdown. Carol Gee’s Malito de Reve gelding KHH Malito Park will be ridden by Fraser Duffy as Luca Bortolamei, who qualified the grey at Rincoola, has returned home to Italy to have surgery on a broken collarbone.