‘Awesome’ Fenyas Elegance takes runner-up spot at Chatsworth

“Simply awesome,” was how Kildare-born Aoife Clark de scribed Fenyas Elegance last night, after the pair finished runners-up at Chatsworth Horse Trials in England in the mare’s first outing at three-star level.

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.