MANY of those in action at Marlton on Saturday also competed at the Leinster Region’s show in CoilÓg the following day, including Tara Hayes, who recorded a double on her mother Fiona’s Sandora BS.

In front of Jane Whitaker (List 1), Hayes just beat herself when scoring 69.41% in the Prix St George on the 10-year-old Irish Sport Horse mare and herself and one other in the Inter 1, where she topped the short leaderboard on 68.82 with the daughter of Speilberg.

Other riders to record doubles were the busy multi-discipline combination of Maeve Deverell and her mother Aisling’s 13-year-old home-bred gelding Annaharvey Dunowen, a dun son of Radolin, who scored 71.97 in the FEI Junior Team Test judged by Marie Hennessy (List 2) and 69.12 in the Whitaker-judged Individual Test, where they were the only starters.

In front of Hennessy, who awarded the event rider her highest overall scores, Jenny Kuehnle recorded her double on horses not registered with DI. These were Cairnview Romolu, a 15-year-old ISH gelding by Omar (68.59 in the five-runner Medium 65) and Sammy Davis Junior, a 17-year-old ISH gelding by Imperial Hights (68.47 in the Advanced Medium 95).

Scoring

Whitaker’s winners at the same levels were Laragh Byrne, who topped the scores in the six-strong Medium 73 with her mother Sonya McCormack’s ISH gelding La Saurian Cavalier (70.5), a seven-year-old by Gallant Cavalier, and Petra Larkin, who saw off two rivals when scoring 67.79 in the Advanced Medium 90 on her nine-year-old Oldenburg gelding Malbec.

The sole starters in the Para classes judged by Hennessy were Heather Lemmon on the 15-year-old roan mare Ladychapel Narnia (70.42 in the Grade 1 Grand Prix A test) and Karen Burke with the seven-year-old Westphalian gelding Secret Desire HW (68.75 in the Grade V novice test).

Other winning scores over 70% were recorded by Caroline Lynch, who topped the overall leaderboard of Lisa O’Brien (List 5) on 71.60 in the nine-runner Preliminary 16 with her four-year-old Connemara gelding Slieve Boy; by Bee Sykes, who did so on 73.79 in the four-runner Novice 39 judged by Clare Fitzsimons (List 4) with the 15-year-old Hanoverian gelding Con Caballito; and, in front of the same judge, by Jenny Byrne, who topped the scores on 70.56 in the nine-runner Elementary 52 with the 12-year-old ISH mare Sligo Miss Candy.

In the dedicated Junior classes, there were doubles at Novice level for Lucy Ferris and the 10-year-old Connemara gelding How Ya Sammy and at Elementary level for Darragh Whyte and the similarly-aged ISH mare Miss Uptown Girl. The highest score (72% in the three-runner Preliminary 16) was awarded by Lisa O’Brien and earned by Tallula Hughes on the 19-year-old skewbald gelding Lightning McQueen, this pair bringing up a double having seen off four rivals in the Preliminary 8 judged by Alison Thorne (List 5).