IT has taken Applejack a bit of time to record his first Eventing Ireland success but the seven-year-old did so last weekend in the Munster Region CNC1* national championship at Tattersalls where he completed, on his winning dressage score (27.6), under a delighted Emma Jackson.

“This is a hardy fellow,” said owner Jackie Harris of his Jacomar gelding, who he purchased as a three-year-old from his Banbridge breeder, Gordon Cowan. “If I get the right money for the horse I’d sell, but I wouldn’t mind pushing on with him a bit up the grades.”