“THE course was brilliant and the going was super,” was the verdict of Nicola Ennis, who was one of two riders to score a double at the second Eventing Ireland fixture hosted by the Dulohery family at Kilguilkey House this season. Riding her own eight-year-old thoroughbred gelding Devils Cape, she was the all-the-way winner of the nine-runner EI115, adding nothing to her leading first phase score of 31.6 to finish well ahead of runners-up Molly O’Neill and Muckridge Ambassador (36.8).

Ennis’s second win of the day came courtesy of Michele Dennigan’s seven-year-old Air Jordan Z-sired HVL Air Springs in the EI110, where she repeated the feat of finishing on her leading dressage score, this time 26.3. Patrick Whelan was the only other competitor in the class to post a clean sheet in both jumping phases to finish second (30) riding his own Augustus Colman, who hasn’t incurred a single jumping or time penalty in any of his four Eventing Ireland runs. Whelan was also fifth with Maria Radford’s Kilbunny Tahiti (35.9), behind David Raeburn and JJ Big Red, third on 32.2, and Jennifer Kuehnle with Carrigshawn Zara, fourth on 33.