THE second leg of the Horse Sport Ireland Autumn Development Series in eventing was staged during Tuesday’s Try Eventing competition at Scarteen where the weather was very much as forecast with the rain holding off until the final combination had finished.

Long headed home to Co Meath by then was Elizabeth Power who won the featured five-year-old class on the S Creevagh Ferro gelding Breaffy Mandela. The tall bay, who completed on his Paula Geiger-awarded dressage score (23 penalties), as did the second and third-placed horses, was bred in Co Mayo by Anne Hussey out of the Ghareeb mare, Kilbeg Kitty.