KILLYLEAGH’s Joseph Murphy rounded off his 2020 Eventing Ireland season in style last Saturday with a treble in the three EI115 level classes at Punchestown.

Annette O’Callaghan is used to seeing precocious two-year-olds by Yeomanstown Stud stallions regularly visit the winner’s enclosure but, when it comes to eventing, she is happy to invest in older horses. The Co Kildare owner reaped the dividends of that policy on Sunday when her Irish Sport Horse gelding Derroon Diplomat, recording one of just three double clears, landed the Horse Sport Ireland Autumn Development Series EI115 class for seven- and eight-year-olds.