OLYMPIC event rider Clare Abbott dipped into the world of pure dressage last Sunday when she competed two unregistered horses at the Northern Region’s summer league show at the Laurel View Equestrian Centre, winning on both half-siblings who were bred by her partner, Gareth Carlisle.

Abbott struck first in the eight-runner Preliminary DI6 where Corey Mawhinney (List 6) awarded her the day’s highest score (75.77%) for her test on Carlisle’s Irish Sport Horse mare MT Diacontina, a five-year-old by Diacontinus who has 17 Showjumping Ireland points.