FIVE other individual titles were contested at last Sunday’s AIRC Connolly’s Red Mills national dressage championships at the Mullingar Equestrian Centre with two of these being claimed by members of Foxborough.

There were only four starters in the RC Medium where Siofra Pratt comprehensively repeated her 2024 success on her Irish Sport Horse mare Ballarin My Grace (137.53%), a 12-year-old daughter of Kings Master. The second Foxborough win came in the 26-runner RC Novice where Louise Lynn scored 139.73 on the 2014 Badminton winner Paulank Brockagh, a 22-year-old Touchdown bay.

There were 35 starters in the RC Preliminary 3 where Stephanie Marwood claimed the honours for Knocknamana Country on board her eight-year-old bay gelding Kylard Bruce (140.59%). A member of the third-placed Killcarrick team, Louise Byrne won the RC Preliminary 2 championship with Sylvester 2 (145.38%). Ruth Malocca won the RC Preliminary 1 championship for Greenvalley when scoring 145.60 with the ISH gelding CCS Banksy Moon, a 15-year-old traditionally-bred grey by Hillviewfarm Superstar.

Good form

An excellent year for Killcarrick’s Richard Hunter continued here at Mullingar where he saw off eight rivals to land the young horse class on his ISH gelding Kan Do Masterclass (140.19%), a four-year-old by Kaiden Leva MD out of a Master Imp mare.

Two open classes were also run on Sunday, a 14-runner RC Preliminary 2 won impressively by Oakleaf’s Yvonne Garrett Brady on the nine-year-old piebald Hio Mr Unique (148.27%) and a seven-strong RC Preliminary 3 where Stracomer’s Erin Fergus came out on top with her 10-year-old Dutch Warmblood mare Kikkis (148.06).

The association completed their move to the Ground Floor at Beech House in Millennium Park in Naas, Co Kildare, this week.