CALLIAGHSTOWN’s Sandra Phipps, who posted the only sub-30-penalty score in the dressage phase, comfortably landed the young horse class on Oyster Pearl (29.8) at the Equipeople/AIRC national eventing championships in Killossery Lodge Stud last Sunday.

Phipps herself bred the five-year-old Irish Sport Horse gelding by Tullabeg Fusion out of MBF Pearl (by Crown’s Ace Pearl), on whom she was a member of Calliaghstown’s winning team on Sunday. Her closest rival in the nine-runner young horse class was Earls Well’s Kate O’Driscoll, who also completed on her first phase score with her similarly-aged home-bred ISH mare Ardkilly New Venture (34).

There were just five starters in the RC90 open, won by Tynagh’s Diane Baylis whose total of 38.1 on the 11-year-old Connemara mare Lilly Dane (by Kilmore Diamond) included 1.6 cross-country time penalties. Annaharvey’s Abbie Jane Weston completed on her dressage score (32.6) to win the eight-runner RC80 open on Tierhogar Seve, a 16-year-old Connemara gelding by Westonhouse Straboe Bobby. The sole starter in the RC70 combined training was Ballycanew’s Patrick Deegan riding the 16-year-old Rowdy Yeats mare Last Masterpiece.