JANE Whitaker (List 1) travelled up from north Co Dublin to Portmore Equestrian last Saturday to judge at the Dressage Ireland Northern Region show, along with Lucinda Webb-Graham, who had completed her tour of duty at this year’s Baileys Horse Feeds flexi eventing series at The Meadows a week earlier.

Whitaker, who judged from Grand Prix to Under 10 Trailblazers level, faced her biggest field of 10 in the Preliminary DI16, where her overall leaderboard was headed on 69.60% by Karen McKee and her slowly-produced Irish Sport Horse gelding Furstlove KPCM (Furstenball - Lovely Lady VDM, by Governor). The six-year-old was bred locally by Karen Millar.