SARAH Ennis warmed up for Burgham by heading north on Saturday for the second week running to Tullymurry where, from four rides, she recorded two wins and a second and third-place finish.

The first of those wins came in the 13-runner EI100 where, as seven days earlier, she completed on her Julie Green-awarded dressage score (22.8 penalties) with her Dutch Warmblood gelding Ordonnay, a six-year-old son of Jardonnay VDL.

The next three in the final standings – Myah McLean on Emile Ford (28), Ian McCluggage on Meadowspring (28.8) and Freya Kennedy with Silver Reflection MPS (29) – all had four show jumping penalties in their totals. McCluggage and Kennedy both had a fence down but there was an expensive lesson for the dressage winner McLean who was penalised for circling through the start after the bell had gone. She wasn’t the only one.

The Ennis double came up in the 19-runner EI90 where seven of the top eight completed on their Lucinda Webb-Graham-awarded flat work penalties, the Co Meath rider doing so to win and place second on Fenyas Email (22) and Alabama Cruise (22.5).

Stepping up on her third-place finish on her only other EI start, P.J. Hegarty’s home-bred Irish Sport Horse mare Fenyas Email, a daughter of Jaguar Mail, is out of Fenyas Elegance (by Ricardo Z) who won the four-year-old Future Event Horse League in 2008 and won at 4* level with Aoife Clark and Oliver Townend. Fenyas Email has qualified for the five-year-old young event horse class at Dublin.

Eliminated on her only other EI start, Gerald Kilbride’s five-year-old Traditional ISH mare Alabama Cruise, who has 35 Showjumping Ireland points to her credit, is by Loch Cruise out of Alabama Gold, by Golden Trump.

Comeback win

There were 14 starters in the EI80 but only three of these completed on their dressage scores, the home-based David O’Connor on the seventh and eighth-placed Tullymurry Hugo (35.3) and Kinmar Touch Of Class (41.8) and the winners, a delighted Suzanne Hill on the lovely Butter (24.5). This 12-year-old dun by Gold N Silver was recording her first EI win since early July 2019.

In common with Sarah Ennis, Donaghadee-based Hill is heading to Dublin having qualified, as Suzanne McLean, for the Intermediate side-saddle class on the 15-year-old Irish Draught gelding LC Lion King.