FRASER Duffy has finished fifth in his three EI110 starts this year on Nadia Sabot’s ex-racehorse Neverquitdreaming and riding for the same owner and Paul Donovan, he won Section A of the five-year-old class at the Young Eventhorse Series qualifier at Orchard Lodge on Tuesday with Sportsfield Cool Hutch.

Duffy and the Irish Sport Horse gelding by Coolkeeran bagged the first of three RDS tickets on offer when completing on 305.2 points. Paddy Byrne claimed the second with his ISH gelding Cornet Blitz (304.9) with the third going to the fourth-placed pairing of Ben Rainey on Ella Boyle’s ISH gelding Larav Guiness Light (303.2). Robbie Kearns finished third with the previously-qualified Belline Kasparov (304.6).

Sportsfield Cool Hutch, who has had one Eventing Ireland start and four under Showjumping Ireland rules, was bred in Co Laois by Thomas Hutchinson out of the Womanizer mare Mo Chroi Mor. The bay also qualified for Dublin last year when ridden by Corentin Gautier.

Two horses qualified out of Section B but not the winner, the Bridget Speirs-owned and bred ISH gelding BT Just Special (310.2) who, under Diarmuid Ryan, had qualified at Tullylish, shortly after winning his Burghley young event horse class at Millstreet, and here was merely adding to his tally of YES! points. Last season, the son of I’m Special de Muze won the four-year-old league.

Robbie Kearns bagged the first RDS ticket when finishing a close second on Richard Ames’s ISH gelding Belline Baron Barbados (310) who was consigned to the 2023 Goresbridge Go For Gold Sales as Monbeg Lagoon. This HHS Cornet bay was bred by Miguel Bravo out of HHS Crystal Clear (by The Echo Factor), dam previously of the Acorad 3 gelding HHS Oaklands/Cooley Gentleman (CCI3*-L) and a half-sister to, among others, the Heritage Fortunus gelding HHS Leacourt Cavalier (CCI4*-L).

John Tilley will be busy at the RDS in August as he secured a fourth ticket when second here with Steve and Georgie Jones’s Classicals Jetpoint Will (308.3) who failed to find a new home at the 2024 Go For Gold Sale, being unsold at €65,000. The HHS Cornet grey, who was bred by Mylie Somers out of the Clover Man mare Jerpoint Mist, went into the sale as the winner of the 2024 Dubarry Burghley four-year-old event horse qualifier at Millstreet where he also won the Discovery event horse qualifier, placing second in the final.

Six horses in total failed to complete over the two classes which would be an average number. The above average figure at Scarteen seven days earlier was still a talking point on Tuesday.