MARGUERITE Kavanagh recorded a Premier Performance double on her Dutch Warmblood gelding Danciano SR at last weekend’s Dressage Ireland national winter finals in Castle Irvine, Necarne.

The former DI chair landed Saturday’s Prix St George on a score of 68.675% and Sunday’s Intermediate I on 67.72%. In securing both titles, Kavanagh and her 17-year-old Lanciano bay faced three rival combinations.

With a win both days for a combined score of 227.5 marks, Sarah Slattery Madden also saw off three opponents on her way to landing the SVS Equine Advanced Medium Category 3 championship with her Brandenburg mare Savona. Here, the Co Galway rider got the better of Bethany Mackey on Kalahari (214.5). However, when the pair duelled for honours in the Premier Performance Advanced championship it was Mackey who comfortably came out on top with her 10-year-old Dutch Warmblood mare by Ferguson (216.125 to 113.875).

Tracy Murphy claimed the three-runner SVS Equine Advanced Medium Category 2 title on her 2015 KWPN-registered gelding Kennedy (207.375), a dark son of Future, while in the six-strong Rider Airbags Medium Category 2 championship, the honours went to Roisin Winters who amassed 215.625 marks over the two days with her Hanoverian gelding Rossini, an 11-year-old chesnut by Rossolini.

There were uncontested championship victories for Cadhla Curran and the German Riding Pony HS, an eight-year-old liver chesnut gelding by Valdez HS, in the FEI pony rider tests; for Millie Cosgrave and the Oldenburg mare Let’s Dance, an 18-year-old bay daughter of Sir Donnerhall, in the FEI children on horses’ tests; for Clodagh Walsh and the Hanoverian mare Chantal, a 16-year-old daughter of Christ, in the FEI Para Grade 1 Grand Prix tests; and for Lucinda Blakiston Houston with her 15-year-old black mare Beltrim Double G in the FEI Para Grade V Grand Prix tests.