TWO Dressage Ireland-affiliated shows were staged last weekend, the first by the Eastern Region at Marlton on Saturday when, on a busy day, the judging duties were undertaken by Vida Tansey (List 1), Jane Whitaker (List 2), Bernie Webb (List 3a) and Lisa O’Brien (List 6).

Lorli Higgins completed a Preliminary double on her home-bred Traditional Irish Horse Mystical Meg. The 15-year-old dun mare is by the Connemara stallion Ashfield Romeo while her dam was the thoroughbred Mystic Oak (by Waajib), a winner on the flat in Germany. The combination scored 72.32% in the Webb-judged DI5A and 75.77 in the O’Brien-assessed DI6.