Pony Dressage – more places for Ireland at Addington

FOLLOWING the FEI Individual Pony dressage competition yesterday (Saturday) at the Addington CDIP, Buckinghamshire, UK, Ireland’s Katie Burns and Caracas qualified for today’s Freestyle to Music (Kur) where they scored 64.62% to place 14th. The class was won by Great Britain’s 2014 European silver medallist Pheobe Peters riding SL Lucci, with 2014 gold medallist,  Germany’s Semmeike Rothenberger and Deinhard B second.

Earlier this morning Sophie Walsh and Horseleap Bruno scored 64.65% to place 2nd in the consolation FEI Team test while Emily Kate Robinson with Tizrara Hill and Roisin Muirhead with Dunsallen scored 61.40% and 60.00% to place 3rd and 5th respectively.

On Friday the squad secured team qualification for the 2015 European Championships for Ponies to be held in Malmo, Sweden in August.

Team Manager Anne Marie Dunphy with the Irish pony dressage team at Addington