KEVIN Acres, Dressage Ireland’s national champion for 2023, won the Beezies Stud Big Tour title at last weekend’s Wild Atlantic Dressage Festival on his Mullingar partner, Con McCarthy’s Dutch Warmblood gelding, Ganesh.

At the Ard Chuain Equestrian Centre, Acres and the 13-year-old Jazz bay won Saturday’s Intermediate II on a two-judge score of 70.54%, while the combination topped Sunday’s Grand Prix, where, again, two judges officiated, on 65.59, giving a championship-winning total of 136.13. Sarah Mellor placed second with her 14-year-old Hotline mare, Hotshot (124.21).