WILTSHIRE-based Co Down native Abigail Lyle and the 12-year-old Fabregas gelding Farrell, owned by Fenella Quinn, scored 68.413% for sixth place in the Grand Prix class at the four-star Royal Windsor horse show in Great Britain today [Wednesday].

Abigail is a Northern Ireland Sport athlete award recipient who is trained by the legendary British Olympian Carl Hester. Two Irish riders achieved the first of two minimum eligibility requirement scores for the 2023 FEI Dressage European Championships, to be held in Riesenbeck, Germany in September, at Royal Windsor CDI4* this afternoon.

Kevin Acres and Con McCarthy's 12-year-old KWPN gelding Ganesh completed on 66.761% in 10th place. Anne-Marie Rawlins and the 12-year-old Westphalian gelding Etoile, owned by her father Dane and Greg Powell, scored 66.261% for 11th.

On her first international outing since the birth of her baby daughter Isabella in early March, British rider Charlotte Dujardin and Carl Hester and Coral Ingham's world championship team silver medal gelding Imhotep scored 77.261% for a winning return at Royal Windsor.