Laburnum Ineer fared best of the quartet over the Fred Gutherie-built show jumping track, lowering only the oxer at five.

Having had the wonderful schoolmaster Prince Zola to compete last year, Athlone’s Kennedy was winning her first two-star here on her father Andrew’s nine-year-old Coosheen Stormboy gelding Laburnum Ineer, on whom she landed one-star classes last season at Annaharvey and Tattersalls.