WILLIAM Greene’s bay gelding Edentrillick Top Gun (Dourkhan Hero Z x Thunder Van De Zuuthoeve) won the Horse Sport Ireland three-year-old loose performance class for geldings and colts in Simmonscourt on Thursday evening. Judged by Philipp Baumgart from Germany, his top score of 91 included high marks for technique and attitude, but it was his canter mark of 24 and his scope mark of 18 that gave him the edge.

“He’s home-bred, home-produced and a really nice horse,” Greene said.

“I actually wasn’t going to take him to the qualifier, but I got talked into it at home and I’m glad I did. He has just got better and better and better since then and has turned into the absolute machine.

“He’s going to be produced here at Edentrillick Sport Horses, Hannah Agnew will ride him next year and hopefully he will be ready for the four-year-olds next year.

“We’ve been lucky enough to have horses in that class every year over the last few years, so hopefully that will continue.

“It was our first win at Dublin and it’s definitely brilliant, it’s the one you really want to win, so we are delighted.”

Missing out on the win by just one mark was Deirdre Connolly’s Tuppence In Clover (Castlefield Kingston x Lux Z), who had his top marks in conformation and technique.

Gerard Burke’s unnamed grey (Mylord Carthago x Cornet Obolensky) wasn’t far off the leaders on a final mark of 87.

Fillies

In the filly division, Donnacha Anhold’s Dolmen Decision Time (Quality Time Tn x Cavalo Z), bred by Jack Murphy, was the winner on 90.5 with the chesnut’s canter (25) and scope (17) giving her the edge.

“I bought her from Jack Murphy as a foal as I was hoping to expand my mare herd, but I’d say given her performance credentials, she’ll probably be sold between now and the end of the year,” Anhold said.

“She’s a top-end performer and beautiful looking. She was second in the qualifier and I brought her to three agricultural shows in between to get her out and about and seeing things and she won twice and had a third in the three-year-old classes, so she’s brought home a prize every day she’s gone out so far.

“I’m thrilled because I didn’t expect that good a result in the RDS - the competition is very tough - but she was just excellent on the day. She jumped her heart out and the atmosphere didn’t seem to faze her, she just went and did her job.

“I’ve qualified two mares previously in the young event horse class, but that’s the first time I ever did the loose performance. I sent her down to Richard Kerins in Tubberbride to get her ready, he did the long reining and she is now backed and riding. It’s a busy operation there, so it’s great education for a young horse.

“We would do that with all the three-year-olds and they’ve seen an awful lot more by the time they come back home again, which I think helped prepare her for Dublin.”

Last year’s winning owner Andrea Etter was in the ribbons again, this time in second place with the Belmont House Farm and Seamus Sherlock-bred Firstclass B (Siec Livello x Aganix Du Seigneur Z) she co-owns with Sherlock. This bay’s top marks were for conformation (17) and technique (17).

Pam Walshe was third here with her home-bred Casall Q (Casall La Silla x O.B.O.S. Quality 004), another young mare to score top marks for conformation (17) and technique (17).