THE Goresbridge Select Sale of Event Horses, which took place at Tattersalls on Thursday night, received a timely boost last Saturday at Killossery Lodge Stud where Michael Ryan partnered Gurtera Jimmy Clover to win Section B of the EI110.

The now six-year-old Newmarket Venture gelding topped the 2017 renewal of the May Sale, then held at Goresbridge, when, consigned by Billy Daly, he was knocked down to his present owner, Michael McGrath from Monkstown in Co Cork, for €23,000.

Joint-third after dressage (30.8), Ryan jumped a double clear on Gurtera Jimmy Clover and, with 4.4 cross-country time penalties, moved up to record a first success at this level on the bay. North Dublin-based rider John Gavin was delighted with his second-place finish on Toome Ramiro Pippin whose completion score of 36.5 included 5.2 cross-country time penalties.

Two riders beat the clock in this division viz, Leila Baker who was third on French Puissance (37.8) and Adam Haugh who finished 10th with Stonehavens Star Quality (41.3).

Three riders managed that feat in Section A including the first two in the placings, both of whom completed on their dressage scores. Meanwhile, the winner of that phase on 25 penalties, Patricia Ryan, was eliminated as Ballyengland Crafty had multiple stops across the country having earlier incurred eight show jumping penalties.

Co Wicklow veterinary surgeon Michael O’Toole took the honours on his six-year-old First Obama who was scoring at this level for the first time on his fifth start of the season. A son of the Holstein stallion Diarado, the winner was bred in Co Clare by Michael Kelly out of the Rich Rebel mare Ruskey Lady. Tyrella-based Emily Corbett finished second on her own and Sarah Whiteside’s Lynara First Dezign (34.5).

Few of the EI100 competitors were troubled by time penalties. In Section B, the first seven in the placings completed on their dressage scores headed by the first phase winners, Adam Haugh and his five-year-old Casdorff mare Carsonstown Cruise.

Gilly Crawford likewise recorded an all-the-way success to land Section A of the EI90 on Chesterfield Willpower, a five-year-old gelded newcomer by Puissance. In Section B, the dressage winners (19.5), Eilis von Cramon and Lough Conn Laura, had problems in both jumping phases leaving Hannah Thompson in front with the nine-year-old Loughry Lad mare, Jemeela Charm.