SUNDAY proved to be a red letter day for Co Kildare’s Heidi Brabazon as she recorded her first Eventing Ireland success in the CNC1* on her own Red Ace, a non-registered thoroughbred gelding she purchased unbroken as a six-year-old for just €50.

The 25-year-old, who comes from a famous racing family, used to work at her uncle Richard Brabazon’s pre-training Ranger’s Lodge facility on the Curragh but, for the past two years, has been based full time at the Stellor Sport Horses yard of Sarah Ennis and her husband Niki Potterton.