THERE were a lot of classes and competitors at the South Munster Region show held in Maryville Stables last Thursday week but the emphasis here is on those classes in which scores count towards the O’Brien’s midweek summer league.

Among these, doubles were recorded by two combinations. Rosemary Gaffney partnered Norabel (73.39%) to land the four-runner Elementary DI56A judged by Danielle Carey (List 3A) and then, on 66.67, she and her seven-year-old Dutch Warmblood mare won the Para Grade IV Grand Prix A where they were the sole starters before Vida Tansey.

Emily Kate Robinson recorded two uncontested victories before that List 1 judge. In the Advanced class, where she performed the FEI Young Riders’ Preliminary test, the Waterford rider scored 57.81% on the 10-year-old home-bred KWPN-registered mare Kekepania while she won the Prix St George on her 16-year-old Dutch Warmblood gelding Edvaard (63.24).

In lower Graded company, Carey awarded two winning scores above 70%. The first of these was recorded in the Preliminary DI8 by Caroline Marwood on Rose McCarthy’s eight-year-old Connemara gelding Silverhill Boy (71.54) with the second being achieved in the Novice DI21 by Aine Griffin riding her 13-year-old chesnut Warmblood gelding Cocktail De Riverland (72.24). Carey also judged the Medium DI67 where the scores were topped by Angela Lyons on her 17-year-old Hanoverian gelding Woodcroft Santa Cruz (67.58).

Wearing her List 5 hat, Lyons judged the three Trailblazers league classes, awarding her highest score of 77.50% to Dorothy Fleming who saw off six rivals to win the Mini class on the unregistered Apollo Sparky, a 15-year-old 138cms bay gelding.

Lyons’s winner of the Intro class was Sinead O’Regan riding the five-year-old Connemara mare Brackhowney Roisin (70.48).