SARAH Ennis spent Saturday on the ground, coaching members of the North East Region of the AIRC at Grange Farm, but she was back in the saddle on Sunday at Lisgarvan Farm where she had four rides in the EI100, all of whom completed on their flat work marks.

The Jill Spring-judged dressage phase proved very influential as few combinations had problems in jumping. Riding the six-year-old Frankfort Boy mare Greenhall Granuaile, Ennis had to share the early lead with Siobhan Schous on Derryvinane Herbie (21.3 penalties) but was left in front when Schous finished 12 seconds over the time on the final leg.

Winning for the second time in three starts, but her first at this level, the Derry Rothwell-bred Greenhall Granuaile finished just in front of her stable-companion, Ennis’s own Plot Blue mare Action Lady M (21.8) who was making her seasonal debut having had one successful EI90 outing last season. Disappointingly for winning owner Joan O’Connor, her own competitive appearance with Captain Kerev in the EI90 (Amateur) did not end so well.

Diamuid Keeling, who works for Willie Mullins, recorded his first Eventing Ireland success on Sunday when he landed the 15-runner EI90, on his dressage score, with the unraced thoroughbred, Masons Honour.

The eight-year-old City Honours gelding is owned by his former rider Ashling O’Brien, Keeling’s girlfriend and business partner at their recently-established Woodview Sport Horses’ yard in the village of Swan, Co Laois where they run a breaking, sales preparation and racehorse pre-training business. O’Brien’s mother Mary bred Masons Honour whose year-younger full-brother, Mason City, who was pre-trained by Keeling and O’Brien, won the bumper at Kilbeggan on Friday evening for the Gordon Elliott yard on his second racecourse start.