WHEN your luck is in, it’s in and, having received a call-up from the reserve list to the Irish squad for the European Junior eventing championships in Strzegom, Poland later this month, Molly O’Connor won the EI110 (J) at Loughanmore last Saturday.

Despite a fence down show jumping, the Seaforde 17-year-old led from start to finish in this seven-runner class on board her father Paul’s Traditonally-bred Irish Sport Horse mare Stillbrook Aoife (27.3), a nine-year-old grey by Watermill Swatch. With the only clear show jumping round, Katie Robinson completed on her dressage score to finish second with Ophelia Cruise (32.3).

Britt Megahey probably thought he had the EI110 (Amateur) in the bag, but he received 0.4 of a time penalty for being too fast across the country on R Showman (34.2) and so had to settle for second behind Denis Currie and his new ride for this season, the ISH gelding Merlot (34), a chesnut son of Lancelot.

Once competing out of the Smith Brothers Eventing yard in Gilford, the Traditonally-bred ISH gelding The Kings Ransom is now based in Co Kildare from where he travelled back north on Saturday to win the EI100 (J), on his dressage score, under David Keatley.

This was a third consecutive success in three starts for Keatley and the nine-year-old Kings Master bay.

Maya Constable bettered that record when notching up an EI100 (P) five-timer on her mother Kim’s 14-year-old Irish Sports Pony Rockon Pedro, a 14-year-old grey son of the Connemara stallion Newtown Pedro.