‘Awesome’ Fenyas Elegance takes runner-up spot at Chatsworth
Last weekend, Oxfordshire-based Clark powered to eighth place at Badminton Horse Trials with Master Crusoe.
Yesterday, she saw Fenyas Elegance — a nine-year-old chestnut mare owned and bred by PJ Hegarty in West Cork — prove her class with clears in show jumping and cross-country, adding just 6 time penalties to her dressage score of 45.9pens. New Zealand’s Andrew Nicholson was the runaway winner on 44.9pens with another Irish-bred, Viscount George.
For good measure, Clark also placed second in the one-star with Fernhill Adventure, also bred in Cork, by Mary Quinlivan.
Irish equines dominated the feature events, taking top place in all three CIC 3-star sections at the Derbyshire fixture. Nicholson won the first section with Mr Cruise Control by Cruising, bred by Michael and Mary Kelly, while the Lord Noble-sired Viscount George was bred by Geraldine Berney. The third section was won by the Taldi gelding Bodidily, bred by Muriel Howard.
In the Longines Global Champions Tour in Hamburg, Germany, Denis Lynch could not match last week’s opening-leg fourth place, knocking the last fence in the first round with All Star.
In Barnadown, Co Wexford, reigning TRM/Horseware National Grand Prix League champion Greg Broderick took his second win in a row yesterday. On board Golden Exchange, the Tipp rider beat 10 rivals in the jump-off, with Joan Greene next best on Chipigal, followed by Stephen Moore on Merlin’s Magic.
