EDEL Whyte, a digital content specialist with Horse Sport Ireland, bagged the first qualifying ticket for the Dublin Horse Show racehorse to riding horse championship at last Friday’s opening session of the Northern Ireland Festival in Cavan.

Whyte topped the line-up in the open class on Dontbegonelong who she started re-training last November and on whom she competed in the Eventing Ireland Western Region Starter Series and in one leg of the Stepping Stones to Success league at Wexford Equestrian, both thoroughbred sections being sponsored by Treo Eile.