The Kennedy Equine Centre-based OBOS Quality 004 has been enjoying a successful season with his progeny in young event horse classes and the Oldenburg stallion had another four-year-old winner in Richard Sheane’s Caherconree Princess.

Topping Clare Fitzsimons’s judging of the ridden display (104), the Katie O’Sullivan-ridden bay mare was joint-second on 80 points when the marks of the suitability and potential judges Lulu Parkhill (flat), Mairead Ryan and Alain Storme were totted up. Having jumped clear, she completed on a total of 328.

Bred in Co Kerry by James Griffin and having her third outing here, Caherconree Princess is out of the Puissance mare Caherconree Mist who comes from the family of the Grade A show jumper Chapel Rose.

Emma Jackson took the second qualifying slot on the runner-up, Sean Reynolds’s Ars Vivendi gelding Lux Aventi (323) who headed the combined suitability and potential column by six points. This bay, who was bred by Michael Quirke out of the Olympic Lux mare Wood Side, was second to her stable-companion, BLS All Inclusive, at Balmoral.

TOP OF LEAGUE

The previously-qualified Kilcannon Merlin, a bay gelding by A Guidam M, ridden for Mary Bolger by Jason Higgins, went to the top of the four-year-old league on 12 points when finishing third (322). The Sarah Ennis-produced Westwinds MacKenzie is in second place (10) having finished fifth on Wednesday.

Local rider Jill Revill was delighted to qualify in fourth place with her own Ars Vivendi gelding Lislan Fernando who has improved with every outing. The bay gelding only has to learn that the FEHL is not a rodeo and he won’t get extra marks for his display of bucking at the end of his round.