THREE riders won three titles apiece at last weekend’s Slieve Bloom Stud National Dressage Championships at Cavan with Kilkenny’s Rachel Dowley doing so on three individual horses. Her wins came in the County Saddlery Preliminary Category 3 Championship on the five-year-old Furstenball mare Just A Ball BS, in the Freedom Saddlery Elementary Category 3 Championship with the year older Florencio gelding Insticator BS and in the Horse First Grand Prix Freestyle on the 12-year-old Hochadel gelding Cadens.

In the first two Championships, Dowley was the only rider to score 70% or more and low scores were a noticeable trend over the weekend.