CAROLINE O’Brien, a member of the second-placed Killcarrick team, won the RCP2 championship at last Sunday’s Connolly’s Red Mills/AIRC national dressage championships in Mullingar on a combined score of 139.94%, seeing off 33 rivals in the process.

As her winning mount Champagne Sparkles (Masked Marvel - Royale du Berlais, by Poliglote) is a thoroughbred, O’Brien also won the Treo Eile award on the 10-year-old. The French-bred gelding failed to win 11 starts for the Gordon Elliott yard, but is enjoying a more successful second career in dressage, showing and performance classes.