THE Connolly’s Red Mills AIRC West Leinster Dressage Qualifier took place last Sunday at Redhills Stud in Co Kildare, by kind permission of Karl and Jennie Heffernan. Judges Maura Quinlan Pluck and Liseanne Kearns were kept busy with 73 tests before them.

In the team competition, there were 14 teams hoping to win one of four qualifying places. Moyglare’s Catherine O’Leary, Maryam Yussuf, Mary Leavy and Gabriella Farries claimed first place. Greenhills Black (Fionnuala O’Connor, Olwyn Alexander, Noeleen O’Brien and Donal McKenna) took second. The Killcarrick purple team (Sinead Ellis, Patricia McGlynn, Genna Kavanagh and Tania Whittle) took third and Winterdown (Geraldine Monaghan, Aisling Delaney, Caoimhe Delaney and Eimear Delaney) took fourth.