GILFORD’S Steven Smith and his daughter Hollie were another family to feature on Saturday with the former riding two winners and three placed horses from his five rides while Hollie came away with a 100% record when striking on her sole mount of the day.

Smith senior initiated his brace in the EI110 where, despite the addition of 4.8 cross-country time penalties, he led from start to finish on the previous weekend’s The Clare winner, Campbell McClean’s Irish Sport Horse gelding Annaghmore Cornoko (31.6).

This HHS Cornet six-year-old was bred in Co Offaly by Aoife Healion out of the KWPN-registered mare Annaghmore Temptress (by Iroko), dam also of the 2015 Beach Ball gelding Annaghmore Rebel Beach/Cooley Neptune who is eventing in the USA. With the addition of 5.6 cross-country time penalties, Sarah Ennis finished second on DS Are You Calypso (34.4) while Smith was third and fourth on Sinetta (39) and Lachain Lance (40.6) both of whom had a fence down show jumping and collected time penalties.

None of the 11 starters managed to beat the clock across the country, Connor McClory coming closest when a second over with Turn Up Trumps who spoiled his chances of a top-three placing when lowering three show jumping fences to finish seventh (46.7).

EI110 (Open)

In the eight-runner EI110 (Open), Smith finished first on Susan O’Shea’s ISH gelding Tullaher Paudie, an eight-year-old Shannondale St Ghyvan bay who completed on his winning dressage score (21.8 penalties), and second with Caroline Overend and Carla Leitch’s home-bred CJO Kann Surprise. The latter, whose total of 26.2 included 2.4 cross-country time penalties, had slipped up on the flat at The Clare the previous Saturday.

EI100 (Amateur)

Hollie Smith’s win came on her dressage score in the EI100 (Amateur) with her father’s Mr Diceman (27 penalties) on whom she had finished second at The Clare. This 11-year-old Ringfort Cruise bay, who was bred by the Northern Region’s treasurer, John McBride, is out of the unraced thoroughbred mare Love On The Wing (by Winged Love). This was a first EI win for Smith since September 2018 but, to be fair, she did take three years out from the sport.

For the second Saturday running, Smith and Mr Diceman finished immediately ahead of Christine Findlay and the ultra-consistent Parklodge Over And Under (27.5). All but one of the top six in the class completed on their Coreen Abernethy-awarded dressage scores - the odd one out being the flat-phase winners, Barry Magan and Caltra Western Dream, who had a fence down show jumping for a total of 30.5.