HORSE SPORT IRELAND EVENTING: IRELAND WINS TATTERSALLS TEAM TROPHY, FOX-PITT TAKES THREE STAR VICTORY

Source: News Release/Colin McClelland

IRELAND WINS TATTERSALLS TEAM TROPHY, FOX-PITT TAKES THREE STAR VICTORY

THE Irish eventing quartet of Mark Kyle, Liz Power, Mike Ryan and Camilla Speirs Sunday afternoon snatched the Dubarry Boyne Trophy from the British team as Kildare's Camilla Speirs romped home in first place in the final, cross country phase at Tattersalls International Horse Trials in Co. Meath.

In the Irish Field CCI3* class, however, British Olympian William Fox-Pitt held onto his overnight lead to take first place with the Irish Sport Horse Bay My Hero, with another Irish Sport Horse in the runner-up slot, Sugar Brown Babe ridden by Ireland's Sarah Ennis.

Ireland narrowed the gap on the British lead in the Boyne team competition Sunday morning with clear rounds in show jumping from Speirs, Mark Kyle and Mike Ryan, but a sizzling zero score performance on the cross country track this afternoon from the 22 year-old Speirs and the Irish Sport Horse Portersize Just a Jiff clinched the trophy.

The George Mernagh Memorial CIC3* class also saw Ireland take a total of eight places in the top ten, with Aoife Clark and the Irish Sport Horse Master Crusoe in second, and Capt. Geoff Curran on yet another Irish Sport Horse, The Jump Jet, in third place.

All of Ireland's Dubarry Boyne Trophy team were top ten finishers.

The Irish team was:
Mark Kyle/Coolio
Liz Power/September Bliss
Mike Ryan/Ballylynch Adventure
Camilla Speirs/Portersize Just a Jiff

The British team was:
Millie Dumas /Action Packed
Polly Stockton/Regulus
Ruth Edge/Two Thyme
Oliver Townend/Armada

Other results from Tattersalls today were:
CCI2* 1st Christopher Burton (AUS)/Underdiscussion 37.0.
CCI1* 1st Christopher Burton (AUS)/Graf Liberty 37.5.
CCIJ 1st Tori Dixon (IRL)/Shadow Light 48.1.
CCIunder25 1st Isabel Djivanovic (GBR)/Billy Buzz 43.2.
CCNP** 1st Gavin Smiddy (IRL)/Mr. Hale Bob 37.9