OVERALL winners of the TRM Show jumpers Club Spring Tour earlier in the season, Robin Carey got his National Grand Prix campaign off to a promising start when he secured victory in the Cooley Farm-sponsored Premier Performance National Grand Prix at Barnadown last Saturday.

Riding Luicruz, the Kilkenny rider kept all the poles in place in a runaway time of 39.41 seconds to take the winner’s share of the €4,000 on offer. Going early in the jump-off, Carey made up time from the start from one to two and maintained this pace. Towards the end, he navigated a good turn-back from the double to the penultimate oxer and then on to the last vertical.