HAVING opened up their Orchard Lodge yard for the third of the Young Eventhorse Series qualifiers the previous Tuesday, Kieran Connor and Michelle Nelson had their team of volunteers in place again last Saturday for the third of the RDS breed performance qualifiers.

Co Westmeath’s Sarah Maxwell, who won the performance Irish Draught final for four and five-year-olds last August with Carrafarm Constellations, recorded a comprehensive victory in Section B of that qualifier on Saturday with Passions Storm (230.5 points). Colin Barrett’s five-year-old Gortfree Hero gelding was bred by Co Mayo’s Zoe Gallagher out of the Rakish Paddy mare Springvale Beauty.