BREEDERS Thomas and Mary Power were at Scarteen on Tuesday to see their traditionally-bred Irish Sport Horse gelding Higher Power win the four-year-old Dublin working hunter qualifier in the hands of Sarah Lang.

The bay son of Pointilliste is the first of three recorded foals out of the Craigsteel mare Daisey Day, a half-sister to the Pointilliste gelding RNG Vantage Point, who Lang evented at CCI3*-S level. This is the family of the Powers’ great show mare Star Banner.

Higher Power, who has done a small amount of registered show jumping, also contested a section of the four-year-old young event horse class on Tuesday, finishing 11th.

Only five of the 23 starters recorded clear rounds and they filled the first five placings, Lang and Higher Power topping the leaderboard with 91 marks to their credit.

The other qualifiers were Sarah Maxwell with Cool Mystery (90), her ISH mare by Bravour VDL, Luke Coen with the Wellerman Syndicate’s Wellerman (89), a black ISH gelding by Anchorman, Claire Sheerin with her own Irish Draught gelding Myhighfield Hot To Go (86), a chesnut son of Kilmovee Lionhawk, and Lorna Murphy with Tiktok Duke Of Clover (85), an ISH gelding by Ardcolum Duke.

In common with Lang, Murphy and others, John Tilley competed in both the young event horse classes and the workers’ classes at Scarteen. From four rides, the Kilkenny-based British international event rider qualified one young event horse, Tailor Made KK, but made his sole ride in the workers’ section count when winning the lightweight five and six-year-old class.

Tilley topped the leaderboard on 93 marks with Victoire Von Schoen’s 2021 ISH gelding Kilcoltrim Imperius (Komme Casall - Cavimperius, by Cavalier Royale), who was bred in Co Carlow by Aileen Doyle. The chesnut, who did a small amount of registered show jumping with Alex Donohoe, is a half-brother to the Touchdown gelding A Touch Imperious (CSI5*), to the Chacco-Blue mare Kilcoltrim Blue (CSI3*) and to the eight-year-old Plot Blue gelding Kilcoltrim Cooley (CCI3*-S).

Roisin Cahill qualified in second on Ann O’Grady’s ISH gelding Kilguilkey Venture (91), a five-year-old by Newmarket Venture; Shane McKenna did so in third with Marie Kent’s ID mare Chapel Hill Rose (90), a grey daughter of Bannvalley Silver Dancer; the busy Pauline Dahill bagged the fourth ticket on offer with her mother Joan’s Glencairn Squirrel (83), a five-year-old ISH gelding by Condios; and Nikki Murphy qualified in fifth with PJ Hegarty’s home-bred Fenyas Gmail (80), a six-year-old gelding by Jaguar Mail.