THERE was an excellent entry for last Sunday’s third and last leg of the Plusvital Spring Series of combined training competitions at Wexford Equestrian, where the dressage judging duties were divided between Vicky Cloney and Sarah-Jane Doyle.

“We were lucky that there was a bit of a stretch in the evening,” said organiser Orla Roche, the Tomhaggard venue’s joint-owner with husband Pat Peare, the second phase course builder. “We’d a mainly dry day, but there was one torrential downpour and I really felt for those riding their tests during it!”