PATRICK Whelan, who was crowned the 2025 national 120 champion with Altitu when second in the 4*-S at Millstreet earlier in the season, claimed two other titles last weekend at the Eventing Ireland national championships in Barnadown.

In the fixture’s highest-rated championship, the NutriScience Equine EI110, where three of the top four completed on the dressage scores they were awarded by Bernie Webb and Lynne Cassidy, Whelan led throughout to win narrowly on Ann and Lisa Cash’s home-bred seven-year-old Irish Sport Horse gelding SHL Cantbetamed (26 penalties).