MOLLY O’Connor was eliminated when parting company with Stillbrook Aoife at Tyrella (1) but followed that setback up with a good performance on her father Paul’s Irish Sport Horse mare in the CCI3*-S at Thoresby Park a week later.

Last Saturday, at Tyrella 3, O’Connor put matters to right in the eight-runner EI110 (J) where, on her second-place dressage score (22 penalties), she recorded the only double clear inside the time to win with the traditionally-bred Watermill Swatch nine-year-old.

Co Kildare’s Bonnie O’Neill, who is one of the Irish youths’ squad competing in The Netherlands this weekend, gave Miriam O’Donnell’s Blessington Prince Royal his first run of the season in the seven-strong EI100 (J) which the 19-year-old brown gelding won on his dressage score (31.3).

There were seven runners also in the EI100 (P) where the top three all completed on their first phase scores. Here, Co Offaly’s Sarah Smullen moved up a grade from the previous weekend with her mother Frances Crowley’s Connemara gelding Macs Silver Cookee, repeating her all-the-way winning tactics on the eight-year-old Silver Shadow bay.

The flat work phase didn’t have as much as a sway in the EI90 (P) with the two early leaders dropping out of contention. This allowed 12-year-old Charlie Weston to claim the honours on the Connemara mare Leamore Girl who wasn’t winning out of turn having filled the runner-up spot at the two earlier Tyrella events.