HAVING lost out narrowly to Patricia Ryan in the EI100 championship at Kilguilkey House last weekend when he and she completed on the same score, Cathal Daniels thought the same fate might befall him in the Agria EI90 class. However, here he shared the title with Heidi Brabazon who, too, is based on the Curragh.

Daniels was on board Paul Donovan’s KBS Sportsfield Quartz, a five-year-old Irish Sport Horse gelding who was making his Eventing Ireland debut, while Brabazon partnered Sue McCarville’s Connemara gelding Blackfort Melody, an eight-year-old I Love You Melody grey who was having his eighth start in affiliated company.