OSCAR O’Connor won two of the three Junior championships at last weekend’s NutriScience Classic run by the South East Region of Dressage Ireland at Susanne Press’s Ballyrogan Stud. Both wins came on board Funkstar, the Oldenburg gelding the rider owns in partnership with his mother Susan.

In the Elementary championship, where just two of the three starters recorded two-day scores, O’Connor and the six-year-old Foundation gelding scored 130.55% with Nicole Peoples achieving a mark of 127.65 on board Ballyhindon Boy.

Five of the six starters completed the two days in the Junior/Under 18 Novice championship which O’Connor and Funkstar won on a total of 142.33. Here the western raiders, Cadhla Curran and Cosmo Rubin claimed the runner-up spot on 136.55. With so many of the younger riders out of the country last weekend, Curran was the only starter in the FEI pony riders on her mother Carmel’s German riding pony HS (139.12).

Back to the Juniors and in the Preliminary championship, the honours went to Aoife Collins on board Phoebe Bright’s home-bred Sopwith Pup (141.39%), a 12-year-old Irish Sport Horse gelding by Solo Jordan out of Fair May (by Fulton). Here, Anna O’Connor finished second on Susan’s ISH gelding Jumping Jack Flash (139.6), an 11-year-old chesnut by Jack Of Diamonds (SWE) who Oscar evented in the past, winning a 17-runner EI100 (J) at Kilguilkey House two years ago.