HSI Connolly’s RED MILLS Spring Tour Kernan Equestrian Centre

News Desk | April 1, 2014

Kernan Equestrian Centre HSI Connolly’s RED MILLS Spring Tour Grand Prix Show Sunday March 30^th 2014.

Kernan Equestrian Centre ran a very successful horse show on Sunday 30th March. This incorporated a leg of the HSI Connolly’s RED MILLS Spring Tour. All competitions were kindly sponsored by local company Glencarron Nursing Home and the Showjumpers Club

Sunday dawned early, with the hour springing forward but that made little impact on the excellent turnout of horses, riders and spectators. The first event of the day the 1m saw Lorraine McGuinness on North Louth Horse Park’s Russian Gold taking 1^st place. In the 1.10m class April McCrea took the red rosette on Baby Blossom in a time of 27.51secs narrowly beating Kate Murray and Tuillibards Petite Bonnie’s time of 27.81secs relegating them to 2^nd place. Close on her heels was Laura Brown on Kec Purple Princess who finished up on a time of 28.11secs. The best supported class of the day the two phase 1.20m produced a very high standard of jumping with twenty nine combinations out of the 66 starters jumping double clears. Jordan Coyle on Rebel Z held on to his early lead in a fast time of 21.80 secs. to give him first place even though his brother Daniel did his best on Isobella Argentina, his time of 23.10secs was good enough for 3^rd place as still to come Paul Carroll on Carroll’s Produce Ltd’s Castleroche la Roche triumphed with a faultless round in 22.62secs. giving him the 2^nd prize.

The eagerly awaited 1.35m €2,500 Grand Prix jumpoff event attracted 38 entries with Peter Smyth grabbing a hard fought victory on on James Mc Kean’s Victoria Rose. Glencarron Nursing Home sponsored the competition, with 10 of the 38 starters making it through to the second round. Peter and the eleven year old mare Victoria Rose (Limmerick x Edmund Burke) are already multiple Grand Prix winners and they showed their class with a double clear round over Tom Holden’s course to take victory in 30.03secsonds, just ahead of Alexander Butler and Vimminka who were just a fractions slower (30.16secs) to take 2nd place.

Reigning Spring Tour champion Daniel Coyle held the lead in the weekend’s action

and as news filtered through that Tomas O’Brien had won at the southern venue Maryville, Coyle knew he needed a good result to maintain his position. A clear round in 31.10secs with Linzi Johnston’s Uptown Girl saw Daniel take 3^rd place . His brother Jordan Coyle also produced an excellent performance to finish 4^th on VDL Cassius. Alexander Butler grabbed another slice of the €2,500 prize fund on offer when taking 5^th place with Monastery Stud More Pleasure while young rider Emily Turkington completed the top six with Willem, their time of 32.18 secs was just one hundredth of a second behind 5^th place Alexander Butler

Young Rider of the show was Daniel Coyle.and the Best Turned Out prize went to Mise Le Meas (John Floody). Kernan Equestrian Centre rugs were presented to winners of the 1m/1.10m&1.20m classes by James Kernan. The rug to the winner of the 1.35 Grand Prix class was sponsored by Darragh Equestrian Solutions.

Kernan Equestrian Centre wish to extend their sincere thanks to Glencarron Nursing Home for their generous sponsorship of this leg of the HSI/Connolly’s RED MILLS Spring Tour in association with The Showjumpers Club. They also wish to acknowledge the support of Castlefield Sport Horses; Thermatex; Platinum by Harry Dabbs &Jumpinaction.net.

Kernan Equestrian Centre
HSI Connolly’s RED MILLS Spring Tour

Grand Prix Horse Show

Sunday 31^st March 2014

Ev 1:1m- 1,Nth Louth Horse Park’s Russian Gold (Lorraine McGuinness);

2,P. McCourt’s Trebor Tell Me More (Maeve McCourt); 3, M. McShane’s MMS Camilla (Mary McShane); 4, L. McEntaggart’s Explorer Z (Louise McEntaggart); 5, L.Klelly’s Atlantic Sparkle (Ryan O’Neill); 6, P. Kirwan’s Rebel (Sarah Jane Kirwan);

Ev 2: 1.10m- 1,W. McCrea’s Baby Blossom (April McCrea); 2,L. Murray’s Tullibards Petite Bonnie (Kate Murray); 3,E. Kelly’s Kec Purple Pineapple (Laura Brown); 4,R. Hughes’s Roxborough Double Diamond (Ryan O’Neill); 5,P. McCourt’s Latika (Emmet McCourt); 6, A. McCrea’s Clagan Royale (Stephen Brown); 7, P. Duffy’s Brockwood Supersonic (Sean Kavanagh); 8, M. Buser’s Vigo g (Beverley Thompson);

Ev 3: 1.20m- 1, D. Coyle’s Rebel Z (Jordan Coyle); 2,Carroll Produce Ltd’s Castleroche La Roche (Paul Carroll); 3,J. Carr’s Isobelle Argentina (Daniel Coyle); 4,E. Kelly’s Kec Purple Pineapple); 5,J. & E. Hogg’s Indicator (James Hogg); 6, L. Murray’s Lullibard’s Petite Bonnie (Kate Murray); 7,M. McAllister’s Hermrs Roysle (Tom Hearne);

8,N. Kieran’s Echo Ireland (Rebecca Kieran);

Ev. 4: HSI Connolly’s RED MILLS Spring Tour Grand Prix

Sponsored by Glencarron Nursing Home & Showjumpers Club

1-J. McKean’s Victoria Rose (Peter Smyth (30.03secs); 2,Ladycastle’s Syndicate’s Vimminka (Alexander Butler (30.16secs); 3, L. Johnston’s Uptown Girl (Daniel Coyle (31.10secs); 4, G Sharkey’s VDL Cassius (31.43secs); 5, M. Leddy’s Moanastery Stud More Pleasure (32.17secs); 6, E. Turkington’s Willem (Emily Turkington (32.18secs);

7, W. Lapsley’s George (Kelda Morgan (4/32.88secs); 8, E. McCourt’s Money Train (Emmet McCourt (4/32.88secs).

Rug for 1^st prizewinner: Sponsored by Darragh Equestrian Solutions

Best Turned Out: Mise Le Meas (John Floody)

Winning Owner :James McKean

Highest placed Young Rider: Daniel Coyle

Rugs for 1m/1.10m/1.20m: Sponsored by Kernan Equestrian Centre

Leader Board: 30^th March 2014.

Thomas O’Brien 52 Points

Daniel Coyle 51 Points

Connor McEnaeney 37 Points

James Hogg 27 Points

Liam O’Meara 25 Points