BATTERSTOWN’s Sarah Ennis had a short and profitable trip to Dollanstown on Wednesday for the final leg of the Horse Sport Ireland-sponsored Young Event-Horse Series as she won two of the three classes on half-brothers bred by their Co Wexford owner, Alice Kehoe.

The pair’s Westwinds Mackenzie not only landed the five-year-old class by a sizeable margin but the Ricardo Z gelding totally dominated the league. The bay, who was third in the Future Event Horse League last year before winning his young event horse class at Dublin, competed in all but one of the seven legs of the series.

In accumulating 27 points from his five best results, Westwinds Mackenzie won at Scarteen and Rincoola as well as Dollanstown and placed second and third at Tattersalls and Tullymurry respectively.

On Tuesday, he finished the day on 401.45 points, with a delighted Louise Bloomer qualifying for Dublin in second place with Hollybrook Hotshot (391) who won his young event horse class at Balmoral in May and, on Sunday, finished third in the EI 100 championship at Ballindenisk.

Owned by the rider and her mother Jane, Hollybrook Hotshot was bred in Ballinderry, Co Tipperary by Frank Ryan out of the Nordic Region mare Beechwood Girl.

As the third and fourth-placed horses, Carol Gee’s Ballycorman Smokie (387.85) and Francis Dunn’s Nigra Flight (383.85) had previously qualified for the RDS, the next qualifying ticket went to the Cassino gelding Drumnaconnell Bellagio (380.60), ridden by Mark Robinson for Lawrence Patterson.

Bred in Co Cork by Noel Harris out of a White Clover mare, the bay won an EI 90 class last year at Scarvagh and, on Saturday, was 12th on his dressage score in the EI 100 at Tullylish. He was one of just four of the 16 starters in this class who jumped clear on Wednesday.

The final ticket for the young event horse classes at Dublin 2015 was claimed by Peter Smyth’s Aldato gelding Ash Ville Coral who finished eighth (371.40) under Tracey Watling. This grey is out of a Valville mare.

The Ennis/Kehoe double was initiated in section B of the four-year-old class by the Ramiro B gelding Westwinds Navigator. The brothers are out of the Porter Rhodes mare Westwinds Clover who previously bred Westwinds Hercules (by Ramiro B), Jack Of Hearts (by Touchdown) and Karlos (by French Buffet) and is a full-sister to Westwinds Diego.

Westwinds Navigator finished the league on 22 points as did the absent Kilcannon High Society. However, Mary Bolger’s Rehy High Society gelding was crowned champion as, under Jason Higgins, the Wexford-produced chesnut won at Scarteen, Forth Mountain and Tattersalls before placing fourth at Tullymurry.

Kilkee’s Henry Keane bred Kilcannon High Society out of the Abdullah mare Rehy Delight. There are plenty of performance winners in this family which is also that of the top showing family of the Rothwells’ Millennium Cruise.

On Wednesday, Ennis and Westwinds Navigator won on 326.90 points with Gwen Scott finishing second with the McLoughlin Brothers’ homebred Askoll Peter Pan mare Glendew (322.75), another who had previously qualified for the RDS.

Delighted to pick up the first ticket in third was Daisy Duggan who accumulated 322 points on her own Mermus R gelding Briarhill Marco. The bay was bred in Co Galway by Kathleen Coyne out of the Maltstriker mare Stricker Rua, a full-sister to Michael Ryan’s three-star ride Dunlough Striker.

Even more pleased to qualify in fourth with Crockaulin Prince (317.95), another gelding by the son of Burggraaf, were Co Donegal owner/breeder Micky McLaughlin and rider Stacey Walting who works for the grey’s producer, Victoria Bridge-based Peter Smyth. This four-year-old is out of the Loch Cruise mare Praia Fontinas.

From Newcastle in England, Walting, who comes from a hunting background, has been living in Co Tyrone since 2013 but did spend two months earlier this year in a dressage yard in Sweden. She now regards Ireland as home and thanks Smyth for introducing her to eventing.

Putting the finishing touches to his mount before Dublin, D.J. O’Sullivan won section A on 328.50 with Anne-Marie O’Gorman’s previously-qualified LVS Iowa. This was a polished performance by the brown Iroko mare who is out of Arona, by Cobra.

Owner Sandra Hamilton likes to have an entry in the young event horse class at the RDS each year and has had great success with those who have qualified. She has another live prospect in Caltra Lancini who got through in second place (328.45) on Wednesday in the hands of Colin Halliday. By Lancelot, the bay gelding was bred in Co Sligo by Seamus Cawley out of a Colin Diamond mare.