ANNE Marie Dunphy, Horse Sport Ireland’s High Performance manager for senior and youth dressage, appears to have a very smart horse on her hands in the Dutch Warmblood mare Pedigree OK.

Attending just her second show of the Dressage Ireland season, the black daughter of Formidable ran out an impressive winner of the Demlay Equestrian Novice championship, in which she held off 17 rivals, and of the non-championship class for five-year-olds in which she faced just two opponents. The only starter in the non-championship six-year-old class was the Dutch Warmblood gelding Olaf Van Lange Weeren (by Hennessy) who was partnered by his owner, Iris Walshe.