Olympic window opens for Irish dressage

The past weekend was a good one for Irish dressage. Not only did Judy Reynolds make sure of her place in the 2018/2019 FEI World Cup final next month with Vancouver K, but the national champion pairing of Heike Holstein and Sambuca achieved the qualifying criterion for the European Championships in Rotterdam in August, which means that Ireland can field a team at the event, Holstein now joining Reynolds and Kate Dwyer (Snowdon Faberge) to give Ireland the mandatory threesome.

Holstein scored 69.326% in the three-star Grand Prix at the UK meeting at Keysoe on Friday with which she secured her second of the two required minimum standard attainments, the other having come just a week earlier in in the four-star Grand Prix in Dortmund, Germany.