DENIS Currie, who is the Northern Region’s members director on the Board of Eventing Ireland, got his 2026 campaign back on track last Saturday at Vesey Lodge where he comprehensively won his second EI110 (Amateur) of the season from five starts with his Irish Sport Horse gelding Merlot.

Currie and the 16-year-old Lancelot gelding led the seven-runner class following Julie Green’s judging of the dressage phase, with two cross-country time penalties bringing their total to 28.3. Lucy Toombs finished over 11 points adrift in second with Bluestone Ice (39.5) on whom she had finished third of 26 in the CCI1*-Intro at Ballindenisk last September.