CLARE Abbott’s excellent season continued last weekend at Millstreet where she won the Noel C. Duggan Engineering Ltd CCIYH2*-S class for six-year-olds on Arthalent and finished a close-up third in the CCI3*-S on Mr Mighty. As he had lowered a pole show jumping and was no longer in a winning position, the Hillsborough Olympian withdrew Jewelent before cross-country in the CCI4*-S.

Like the last-named horse, Arthalent is by the Rosbotham family’s Dutch Warmblood stallion Valent. However, Abbott’s Millstreet winner is owned by her mother Catherine, chair of the Northern Region of Eventing Ireland and breeder of the bay gelding. He is out of the traditionally bred Timpany Night (by Nigrasine) who foaled him when she was out of action from April 2014 to August 2016.