Sam Watson slotted into third after dressage yesterday in the long-format three-star class at the Johnson and Perrott Land Rover International Horse Trials at Ballindenisk, Co Cork, but was in no mood to get ahead of himself.

SHOWJUMPINGIRELAND (SJI) is to impose stiff sanctions on some of its members and officials, as it completes a list of those people it deems breached its rules at last week’s “independent” Millstreet Show All-Ireland Championships.