VINA Buller was rewarded for the work she put into being cross-country course designer at The Clare by seeing her Connor McClory-partnered unraced thoroughbred gelding Bestman Bryan record a runaway victory in Saturday’s 20-strong EI90.

Making his third EI start, the five-year-old completed on his impressive Dave Lee-awarded dressage score (18.3 penalties) with his nearest challenger at the close of play being the Sheelagh Kennedy-owned and bred Irish Sport Horse mare Magic Clementine (28.3), a six-year-old Tolan R bay who had a fence down show jumping under Lucca Stubington.

The Treo Eile-sponsored highest-place thoroughbred when second in the Baileys Horse Feeds flexi eventing series at The Meadows earlier in the year, Bestman Bryan is by the German thoroughbred Lauro (a son of Monsun) and was bred by his owner’s husband, Alfred Buller, out of the unraced Desert King mare Dans Desert.

All-the-way wins were also recorded by Maya Constable on her mother Kim’s Irish Sport Pony Rockon Pedro, a 14-year-old Newtown Pedro gelding, in the five-runner EI100 (P), by Charlie Weston on her grandfather Mervyn Gibson’s Connemara mare Leamore Girl in the EI90 (P) and by Eve Lindsay riding the eight-year-old ISH gelding Don Pablo in the 14-runner EI80.

Katie Robinson riding the ISH mare Ophelia Cruise, an eight-year-old bay by Landenco, and Cayleigh Erwin with Murph filled the top two places in the EI100 (J) on their respective dressage scores of 33.5 and 33.8. However, they were left out in front mainly through the show jumping errors of the early leaders.

A second Northern Region one-day event is scheduled for The Clare on Saturday, July 26th when the tracks will be changed slightly according to Declan Cullen who had the ground chain harrowed and rolled by Tuesday.