THREE Dressage Ireland shows were staged over last weekend, the North Munster Region having the stage to itself on Saturday while, hopefully, the last of the clashing shows between the neighbouring Leinster and Eastern Regions were held on Sunday.

The National Horse Sport Arena in Abbotstown was the venue for leg three of the Leinster Region’s spring/summer league which is being sponsored by ARKequine DERBY. Among those competing was the Kildare company’s local brand ambassador, Tara Hayes, who won both five-runner Medium classes with the home-bred seven-year-old Irish Sport Horse mare Sandora BS and the two Advanced Medium classes on the Dutch Warmblood gelding Ferrero K who faced just a single rival in both.