JASON Doerflinger rode two home-bred Irish Sport Horses for his boss Ralph Conroy in the Burghley young event horse qualifier which was staged on the Thursday of the Millstreet international horse trials when a single point denied him a double.

In the five-year-old class, Doerflinger finished second on the Ganesh Hero Z gelding Milchem Gemstone (85 points) to the more experienced BT Just Special (86) but he wasn’t to be denied in the four-year-old division where he came out on top with the Tyson gelding Milchem Giovanni (85). Cathal Daniels filled the runner-up slot here on board Tullibards Benny’s Night Star (84.5) with Patrick Whelan finishing third on Tomgar Valour (81.5), an €11,000 graduate of last year’s Goresbridge Go For Gold Sale.