THERE was a disappointingly high number of eliminations in the five-year-old classes on Tuesday when Sue and Chris Ryan, who have long been associated with the Young Eventhorse Series through its precursor, the Future Event Horse League, welcomed participants to Scarteen.

Of course, a higher number of horses weren’t eliminated with Carol Gee’s Irish Sport Horse gelding Fernhill Pop Ice winning Section A on the excellent score of 325.8 points in the hands of Kilkenny-based Italian Luca Bortolamei. One of just two horses listed on the Irish Horse Register by Kassanova Hero B Z, the bay was bred in Co Cork by Dermott O’Brien out of the 2016 Darrara Achilles mare DS Aphrodite.