KEEPING with the theme of winning female riders, Amanda Goldsbury followed up her victory on Coolnorran Cooley at Lightsource BP Tyrella (1) with another on the Cooley Farms’ Irish Sport Horse gelding in the EI100 (B) at the Co Down venue last Saturday.

Goldsbury and the I’m Special de Muze six-year-old, who is out of a Waldo van Dungen mare, completed on the excellent dressage score they were awarded by Angelene Nicholson (18 penalties). The winner is highly-regarded by Cooley Farms’ Richard Sheane who purchased him as a three-year-old from Mary Kehoe.

Steven Smith likewise finished on his first phase scores to place second and third with Strangford (22.3) and CJO Kann Surprise (23.5) who finished in the reverse order in their five-year-old young event horse class at the Dublin Horse Show last August.

Smith had fared the better in Section A of this class which he won on his Lucinda Webb Graham-awarded score of 21.3 penalties with the traditionally-bred ISH bay, The Kings Ransom. This was a first Eventing Ireland success on his eighth start for Ann Bowe’s Kings Master gelding who finished second twice at the same level last season. The seven-year-old was bred in Co Wexford by Julia Crosbie out of Lily Langtree (by Bonnie Prince).

Placed for the third time in as many starts, Ella Boyle finished second with her seven-year-old Tullibards Bennys Legacy gelding Mountview Storyteller (22.8).

Placed on each of his three earlier rides, Co Meath’s Michael McNally ended the day with an all-the-way victory in the EPS EI90 on the traditionally-bred ISH Ballygreenan Break Point (28.3) ahead of Cassie Huddleston riding Lisnamuck Ab Fab (29.5).

The winner, a seven-year-old daughter of Pointilliste, evented twice in 2021 when in the care of Joseph Murphy and finished fifth here under McNally last month; she also has 46 Show Jumping Ireland points amassed under Murphy and then Hugo McAlpine.

Ballygreenan Break Point was bred by her Co Tyrone owner Valerie Breen out of her top-class show mare Banglestown Imp (by Master Imp) who is due to foal to VDL Orestus. Breen has also retained the mare’s two-year-old, Ballygreenan Ruby Imp, a full-sister to this Tyrella winner.