JACKSON Laing, who bagged three qualifying tickets for the Gallagher Dublin Horse Show early on at Tullylish, recorded his first Eventing Ireland win of the season last Saturday at Hazeldene in the 13-runner EI105, where the show jumping phase, and cross-country time penalties, had a major effect on the result.

On board Jackie Harris’s eight-year-old Irish Sport Horse gelding Coastal Pride, Laing recorded one of only three show jumping clears, while he was third fastest over the fixed fences (2.4 penalties) for a winning total of 33.9. The other show jumping clears were recorded by the second and third-place finishers, Myah McLean on Luidams Limited Edition (39.6) and Una McClelland on Murlough Beach (41.6).

Katherine Shields, who led after the Rosie Gomes-judged dressage phase on 24 penalties with DS Bouncer 007, had a pole down show jumping before picking up the only jumping penalties incurred across the country. With an additional 9.6 time penalties on the final leg, she dropped down to ninth. Two combinations were eliminated in the show jumping ring.

It was good to see five of the nine starters in the Treo Eile Thoroughbred EI90 leave all the coloured poles intact, but sadly not the flat phase winners on 25.5, Anna Morrow and Baile An Sceilig, who picked up eight show jumping penalties and, with a stop, 46.8 on the final leg.

The only two combinations to complete on their dressage scores to finish first and second were Jennifer Gilchrist with her father Daniel’s Millstream Mahler (26.5), a nine-year-old Mahler gelding who failed to win on the track or between the flags, and Anna Sloan with the 11-year-old Born To Sea gelding Woodbury Tampa (29), who fell and pulled up in two point-to-point starts. Lucca Stubbington, who with 5.6 cross-country time penalties finished third in that class on the hurdle winner Kingfisher Lane (34.6), recorded an all-the-way win in the eight-runner EI90, despite having a pole down show jumping with Sarah O’Neill’s Unbeatable (26.3). This was a much-improved performance by the seven-year-old Zangersheide gelding on his fourth start. Zara Reid placed second on her dressage score with Major Cross.

A fast cross-country round (2.8 time penalties) secured victory in the EI80 for Robyn Rice and Alison Irwin’s ISH mare Hans First Lady (30.6), a 10-year-old daughter of Hans who also won last time out at Glenpatrick. Here, Molly Reid also finished second on Zara’s former ride Greylands Diamond Girl (36.6).