WEXFORD’s Patrick Whelan was the runaway winner of this year’s Connolly’s Red Mills SuperLeague, amassing 30 points, through one victory and numerous placings, with his well-known grey gelding Footfall.

Whelan’s sole success came in the A/CNC2* at Kilguilkey House (2), where there were just five starters, while he finished third in the only other advanced leg of the league, at Tattersalls in August, which was won by Joseph Murphy on Sportsfield Othello.

The series, which was otherwise contested at open intermediate level, started in April at Tyrella (3) where Sam Watson, an ambassador for the sponsor, won with Imperial Sky. Sarah Ennis claimed two legs of the series, the first at Rosanna (1) with her World Equestrian Games mount, Horseware Stellor Rebound, and the second on Woodcourt Garrison when the league concluded in late September at Grove (2).

Also winning a leg at open intermediate level were Nessa Briody with Tom Boy at Annaharvey in mid-June and Declan Cullen with Seavaghan Ash on September 1st at a new-look Loughanmore where there were 17 starters.

Horse Sport Ireland once again sponsored the Irish Sport Horse eventing series for four, five and six-year-old horses and five and six-year-old ponies which concluded at the National Championships in Kilguilkey House in early September.

Ellen Douglas landed the pony title when winning at Kilguilkey on her mother Elaine’s 2012 Aughabeg Spotty skewbald mare Rock Melody.

The four-year-old horse winner by a four-point margin was Clonguish Berjo, a Camillo VDL gelding ridden for Larry Murphy by Rececca Dunlea, while Derek McConnell’s Ricardo Z gelding Derroon Diplomat, who won three of the five legs he contested and was second in the other two, was a runaway winner of the five-year-old division under Sarah Ennis.

The Rosbotham family’s home-bred grey Jewelent didn’t win a leg of the six-year-old series but finished second in the three rounds in which he started to claim the title by four points from another of Ennis’s rides, MTH Shannondale Khaleesi. Ridden by Clare Abbott, the Valent gelding Jewelent concluded his season when finishing eighth in the CCI1* for six-year-olds at Le Lion d’Angers.