TEMPLEMORE’s Bryan Bourke enjoyed his visit to Kilguilkey House last Sunday as he won the EI110 (J) on Killea Quality Cruise and finished second in the EI100 (J) on the Eventing Ireland newcomer, Coolmeen Winalot.

Bourke and his father Donal’s OBOS Quality 004 mare Killea Quality Cruise added four show jumping penalties to their winning dressage score for a total of 32.5 while United Pony Club member, Alana Rose Steele, picked up costly cross-country time penalties (1.2) to finish second with a seven-year-old by the same sire, Islandwood Quality Control, who was having her second start at this level.

Following this win, Bourke and Killea Quality Cruise were heading to Dublin for the final of the Junior/Young Riders event horse championship.

Only one of the eight starters had a problem in jumping on the cross-country phase at Novice level while none did in the EI100 (J). In fact, all but one of the six starters completed on their dressage scores.

Topping the leaderboard on 31.3 was amateur jockey and Kildare Pony Club member Jack O’Haire who was making his EI debut on the nine-year-old Clover Echo gelding Dalestown Castlebar HFS on whom his father, James, finished 11 in the CCI4*-S here at Kilguilkey last month.

The Bourke-ridden Coolmeen Winalot (32), who did a small bit of show jumping last year, is a five-year-old black mare by Lancelot.

Only two started in the EI110 (P) where Georgina Pettit picked up 2.4 cross-country time penalties on her mother Marguerite’s Connemara gelding Ballyerk Black Beauty, an 11-year-old grey by Joyces Cuckoo on whom she also won a week earlier at Punchestown.

Second there with Kilnaspic Lily (39.5), Hannah Willis came out best in the 14-runner EI100 (P) with Laura Bowe’s 12-year-old grey gelding Mr Beau Beaut, completing on her winning dressage score of 24.8.

While two combinations had problems in jumping across the country in that class, none had in the EI90 (P) where, from the same number of starters, 10 completed on their flatwork marks.

Riding the Connemaras Ashwood Buachaill, a five-year-old gelding by Dexter Leam Pondi, and Hazy Bluebell, a seven-year-old mare by Plume de Kezeg who was making her debut, Ciara O’Connor and Ellen Thompson led throughout on 26.3 with O’Connor claiming the spoils as she was closer to the optimum time on the final leg.