ON duty at Marlton on Saturday, Lynne Cassidy (List 3) was a member of the four-strong panel of judges required for the following day’s Leinster Region show at the National Horse Sport Arena.

Cassidy, who assessed those forward in six classes, reserved her day’s highest score (74.72) for the eight-runner Elementary DI52, where her overall winner was Anne Marie Dunphy and her six-year-old Dutch Warmblood mare Pedigree OK.

Jillie Rogers (List 3) also judged six classes and she too awarded her highest score (75.37) to Dunphy and her black daughter of Le Formidable in the Elementary DI51. Also in common with Cassidy, only one of Rogers’s six overall winners claimed class honours on a score of less than 70%. In contrast, seven of the nine winners as judged by Vida Tansey (List 1) didn’t reach that barrier. The only rider to slightly breach it was Kevin Acres, who achieved a score of 70.15 in the two-runner Advanced Medium DI90 on board Con McCarthy’s Dutch Warmblood mare Nybola Turfhorst, an eight-year-old chesnut by Blue Hors Zackerey.

Rebecca McGrath, who faced only one rival in the FEI Junior Individual Test, scored 70% exactly. She rode her mother Sinead’s 14-year-old British Hanoverian mare Summerseat Caledonia on whom she recorded an uncontested victory in a similar class the previous day at Marlton.

Another combination to double up over the two days was Tara Hayes with her mother Fiona’s 10-year-old home-bred ISH mare Sandora BS who, on Sunday, landed the three-runner Prix St George on a score of 69.26.

As might be expected, two of the Trailblazer winners as adjudged by Maire Quinlan-Pluck (List 5) were awarded scores of 70% or more. So too were her winners of the Junior Preliminary DI8, Lucy Ferris and her mother Mary’s 10-year-old Connemara gelding How Ya Sammy (76.35), of the Preliminary DI6 in the short arena, Louise Daly and her nine-year-old ISH gelding Clonross Rebel Heart (70.38) and, narrowly, of the Preliminary DI8, Rika Schmeling and her five-year-old Westphalian mare Fianna Lux (71.35).

Heading to the Pony Club home international at the upcoming Royal Windsor Horse Show, Bray Branch member Emily Grimes scored highly at both Marlton and the NHSA on the 21-year-old ISH gelding Millridge Buachaill Bui.